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Ask any whiskey expert what really makes the difference in crafting a whiskey (time, barrel location, mash bill, barrel wood), and you might get as vast an array of answers. But one thing’s clear: Certain barrel wood is truly rare, like elusive Japanese mizunara oak.
It’s that oak that powers
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