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A decade writing about Japanese whisky

I set up Nonjatta in 2007 after a chance encounter with a bottle of Japanese whisky in a supermarket outside Tokyo. I'm now mothballing the site.  Nonjatta and the projects springing from it have been covered by media organisations including the Guardian, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, El Globo and many others. We've been nominated for the James Beard Award. We've published three great books that have been translated into three languages. We've played our part in telling the story of Japanese whisky.   But it's time to call it a day. All the content will stay up and you can still contact us, but we're moving on to new projects. Nonjatta wasn't particularly pioneering. There was some really useful information online about Japanese whisky before I first posted in 2007. I remember Serge Valentin's  Whiskyfun.com   website being a particular inspiration,  Takeshi Mogi's site   (gone but not forgotten) was a great source in the early ...

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