A Japanese single-malt whisky has been named the world’s best by a prestigious guide. Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible chose the Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask 2013 whisky as the best in the world, followed by three U.S. bourbons. Whisky has been made in Japan since the 1920s, when a Japanese student who studied in Glasgow, Masataka Taketsuru, returned home with his Scottish wife and started the Yamazaki distillery near Kyoto. Yamazaki is now owned by Suntory Holdings, which this year bought United States bourbon maker Jim Beam for $16 billion.
