Mt. Fuji Distillery was built at the foot of the mountain in the early 1970s to make Scottish, American and Canadian whisky styles under one roof, and it remains the unusual case: malt plus three distinct grain styles on a single site. This whisky comes from the middle of those three, the Canadian style, distilled in a batch kettle-and-column arrangement from American corn with Scottish barley. Everything then went into American white oak bourbon barrels, first and second fill only, and stayed there past thirty years — some of it closer to forty. Jota Tanaka selected the barrels individually. The water is Mt. Fuji snowmelt drawn from the aquifer beneath the distillery, which the house dates at roughly fifty years underground before it is used.

Every bottle sold through Midnight Whiskey is sourced as an authentic, sealed product and inspected before it ships. Orders are packed with padded, glass-rated handling and require an adult signature (21+) on delivery; we do not ship to anyone unable to verify legal drinking age. For our full sourcing and handling protocols, see our editorial and authentication standards.

Is FUJI 30 Year a single malt or a grain whisky?

It is a single grain whisky — made from corn and barley rather than malted barley alone, and distilled in a kettle-and-column configuration rather than pot stills. Single grain means all of it comes from one distillery, in this case Mt. Fuji Distillery at Gotemba.

How old is the whisky in FUJI 30 Years Aged Single Grain?

The label states thirty years, which is the age of the youngest whisky in the blend. Components running up to forty years are reported in the mix, and every barrel was selected by Master Blender Jota Tanaka.

How many bottles of FUJI 30 Year Single Grain came to the United States?

One hundred bottles were allocated to the United States in 2022, and a further hundred were released in 2023 to mark the distillery's fiftieth anniversary.