WHISKY SALUTES ‘SCOTS SAMURAI’
36 Sunday Mail
A whisky honouring a Scot “instrumental ” in modernising Japan will be re- released to mark the anniversary of his death.
Thomas Blake Glover, an Aberdeenshire merchant, travelled to Nagasaki in 1859 and went on to co- found both Mitsubishi and the brewery later known as the Kirin Group.
Glover was the first nonJapanese person to be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun before his death, aged 73, on December 16, 1911, in Tokyo.
Named after the “Scottish Samurai”, The Glover first launched in 2015, with bottles of the rare £ 1000 blend sel l ing out in 24 hours.
The Glover fused mature Scotch with ultra- rare whisky from the legendary Hanyu distillery in Japan.