This whisky is blended with Kininvie is called the phantom whisky and smooth. [Monkey Shoulder]

Monkey Shoulder

Details

Price(bottle): JPY 4,000
Price(one-shot): JPY 900
Color: Gold
Viscosity: Low
Alcohol content: 40%

Over view

On the bottle, three monkey is depicted. This bottle design is very impressive. There are a reason in this.
The person makes whisky is much burden in the shoulder on them.

As people pay respect to them, it’s named [Monkey Shoulder].

Also, as stated above, mainly this whisky is blended with [Glenfiddich], [Balvenie] and [Kininvie].
Especially, [Kininvie] hardly sell in a store. It’s a phantom whisky.

This whisky is blended with Kininvie is called the phantom whisky

It has salt taste peated, natural nectar taste.
Also, this whisky goes well with the way of drinking(straight, soda, water, and so). This is very convenient.

Recently, Official site recommends how to drink monkey shoulder to our(cocktail, with water and so).

Personal episode

I drunk it for the first time when I was attracted to bottle design at a Bar in Fukuoka.
Then, the barman explained the reason was named [Monkey shoulder] to me. It was very impressive.

Also, in a good way, this whisky is very convenient as you this whisky goes well with the way of drinking. 🙂