The White Oak Distillery is located in the city of Akashi in the Hyogo prefecture. This distillery received its distillery license in 1919 but only really began using it for whisky in 1984; prior to that it mainly (and still) was used forsakand barley shochu production.

Akashi Red is a whisky blend produced from both malt and grain whiskies.This is a wonderful representation of the typical ‘everyday’ Japanese whisky from the White Oak distillery from Hyougo, Japan.