How are japanese liquors?

[GlenCoe]

I found out that friend of mine works in a cool little shop that offers quite a selection of japanese sweets, teas, cutlery, porcelain, etc... Having experiencing a shop like this for the first time, I was pretty confused and did not know what to kop. Selection of liquors was especially big. Are there any worth a purchase?

 

[impolyt_one]

whiskeys are pretty good. Yamazaki, Hibiki, you can't do very badly with them. Sake, you gotta learn a little Japanese/Japanese geography for; shochu, figure out if your palate likes sweet potato or barley shochu and research from there. That's about it for Japanese liquor, unless you count Okinawa Awamori.

 

[cbird]

Yes, the whiskeys are fine. Yamazaki is very smooth and drinkable and Nikka makes some great ones, even a single malt that was named the best single malt in the world a couple of years ago.

 

[Szeph el raton]

Sake can be really awesome. Buy a good bottle and sample it like a white wine. If you don't like it, heat it up and get hammered.

 

[Abraxis]

I've always wanted to try some aged awamori which I do count as a liquor since the alcohol content is high enough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awamori I think there are jars of this stuff in Okinawa that go past 100 years old.

 

[sonick]