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Sloan1874

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Butte makes a good point, we take all this great stuff for granted. I was having a think about this and perhaps the only other area where the Japanese take a similar interest in something produced in, say, Scotland is perhaps whisky. It's where something is being done with the same level of obsessive attention to detail and quality that they show themselves to producing items.
 
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The Japanese admit freely the only thing they've invented is the Kareoke machine, what they do however believe is that the world spins west to east and that once "it" has turned up on japanese shores "it" whatever it is; language, swords, leather jackets, theatre, fighting whatever it is, is then perfected and then exported to the west. Strange but true.
 

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Butte makes a good point, we take all this great stuff for granted. I was having a think about this and perhaps the only other area where the Japanese take a similar interest in something produced in, say, Scotland is perhaps whisky. It's where something is being done with the same level of obsessive attention to detail and quality that they show themselves to producing items.

Whiskey?? I had no idea the Japanese were distilling whiskey. Although I grew up in E Tennessee not too far from where Jack Daniel's is distilled, IMO the finest aged single malt whiskey distilled on the planet is Islay, which would include Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Ardbeg, and Bowmore to name just a few.
 

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The Japanese make some phenomenal whiskies, some of which have beaten Scotland's single malts in competitions recently- I've had a go at Suntory and Yamazaki a few years ago, and they're mighty fine, though very expensive (those last words sound awfully familiar). But I'm with you, I'm a huge fan of Islay's whiskies - you can't beat a drop of Leapfrog - but Speyside produces some wonderful ones too - Glen Grant's a personal fave.
 

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Fanch, I think you need a holiday in Scotland to visit all these holy leather and whisky sites. If you play golf too, you'll have hit the jackpot. :)
 

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Legally, it's a generic term referring to whisky distilled in Scotland - blended or single - so I suppose so.
 

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