Yakushima lies across the Osumi Strait from Komaki Distillery, in Satsuma town, Kagoshima Prefecture. The island is well-known as Japan’s joint-first World Natural Heritage Site, registered in 1993, together with the Shirakami Mountains. Yakushima’s hinterland is entirely composed of mountains, with
The malt barrels are made from Yakushima cedarwood, which is a first in whisky maturation. As trees, they have hard trunks, rich in oil content, strong against pests, and are impervious to rot. Komaki selects raw materials of whisky to be placed in these special containers. Komaki also carefully cho
We have a unique method of crushing and saccharifying malt for mash ripening. This has been introduced from the know-how we have acquired from shochu production. Distilling processes ultimately determine the quality of a whisky, and we have designed three original pot stills (pot-copper, straight ty
