Tuesday 17 November · Surry Hills, Sydney
Fuji at Chin Chin
Six Japanese whiskies from the foot of Mount Fuji, including the Masterpiece and both 50th Anniversary releases, with an evening of Chin Chin canapés.
Chin Chin Sydney
Fuji Japanese Whisky at Chin Chin · 17 November
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Six whiskies from the foot of Mount Fuji, including the Masterpiece and both 50th Anniversary releases, poured through an evening of Chin Chin canapés.
Double your drams. Choose Ticket + Dram Up and every pour on the night comes to you doubled, from the core range to the Masterpiece and both 50th Anniversary releases. Limited, so they go in order of booking.
The premium pours
Masterpiece and the two 50th Anniversary releases
The three bottles that make the night
Bottled to mark fifty years of Fuji Gotemba, a distillery that makes both malt and grain under one roof, and poured here alongside the core range they came from.
The pour list
- WelcomeA cocktail on arrival
- 01Fuji Single Grain Japanese Whisky, 46%
- 02Fuji Single Blended Japanese Whisky, 43%
- 03Fuji Single Malt Japanese Whisky, 46%
- 04Fuji Single Blended Masterpiece
- 05Fuji 50th Anniversary Single Blended
- 06Fuji 50th Anniversary Single Grain
From the Chin Chin kitchen
Kingfish tartare with nahm jim and coconut, corn fritters in lettuce cups with chilli jam, yellowbean spiced tofu rice paper rolls, a selection of Chin Chin dumplings and Thai beef sausage rolls.
Then moo ping pork skewers, mushroom larb in cos lettuce cups, and to finish, chicken banh mi with pâté and pickles.
Booking
Doors open at 6:30pm with a cocktail on arrival, and the guided tasting starts at 7pm, running through to 9:30pm. Your ticket covers all six whiskies and the full canapé menu.
Tickets are $89, or $79 for members, applied automatically when you sign in.
Chin Chin, 69 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills. Places are limited and go in order of booking.
The flight
Six whiskies, malt to grain to fifty years
We open on the three core Fujis, one grain, one blend, one malt, so you can taste what the distillery does with each. Then the Masterpiece, and the two bottlings made for Fuji Gotemba's 50th anniversary.
A guided tasting, with canapés from the Chin Chin kitchen all night.
What is a single blend?
Most blended whisky brings malt and grain together from different distilleries. A single blend is made entirely at one. Same water, same team, malt and grain both distilled and matured on site.
Very few distilleries anywhere can do it, because very few make both. Fuji Gotemba has since 1973, and three of the six pours on the night are single blends.
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01
Core range
Fuji Single Grain
Several grain styles married into one single grain. Pear, apple and vanilla over caramelised sugar.
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02
Core range
Fuji Single Blended
Malt and grain from the one distillery. Peach, apricot and honey, bright and polished.
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03
Core range
Fuji Single Malt
Several malt styles brought together for harmony. Orchard fruit, crème brûlée and soft oak.
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04
Premium
Single Blended Masterpiece
The top of the range, from rare and long-aged casks. Dark cherry, custard, cocoa and a long, spiced finish.
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05
50th Anniversary
50th Anniversary Single Blended
Made for fifty years of Gotemba. Caramel, rose and peach with a warm cinnamon edge.
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50th Anniversary
50th Anniversary Single Grain
The grain side of the anniversary pair. Maple, fig and dark berries, finishing floral.
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And a cocktail as you walk in, from 6:30pm.
The premium pours
The Masterpiece and fifty years
The second half of the night is the reason to be there. The Single Blended Masterpiece is the top of the Fuji range, drawn from rare and long-aged casks. Beside it, the 50th Anniversary Single Blended and Single Grain, both made to celebrate five decades at the distillery.
Three bottles poured one after the other, with the story behind each.
Included in every ticketAll three premium pours, alongside the core range and the full canapé menu.
From the Chin Chin kitchen
Canapés, sent out all night
Chin Chin's favourite dishes, sent out while the whiskies come round. Light and bright to begin, building to something more substantial as the pours get bigger.
Small bites
Medium bites
Large bite
The details
Chin Chin, Surry Hills
When
Tuesday 17 November
Doors 6:30pm for a 7pm start, through to 9:30pm
Your ticket
$89, everything included
Six Fuji whiskies, a cocktail on arrival and the full canapé menu. $79 for members, applied when you sign in.
Dram Up · +$45
Double your drams. Choose Ticket + Dram Up when you book and every pour on the night comes to you doubled, from the core range to the Masterpiece and both 50th Anniversary releases.
Places are limited and go in order of booking. Guests must be 18 or over.
Can't make the night?
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The distillery
Fuji Gotemba, at the foot of the mountain
Fuji Gotemba began distilling in 1973 in the foothills of Mount Fuji, around 620 metres above sea level. Snowmelt from the mountain filters through volcanic rock for decades before it reaches the distillery, and that soft, cool water runs through every Fuji whisky.
The stills
Three whisky traditions under one roof
Gotemba was built drawing on Scotch, American and Canadian whisky making at once. Pot stills sit alongside column stills, and different grains are run through each, so the distillery has a full palette of malt and grain styles to work with.
It is why Fuji single grain tastes nothing like the grain you know, and why a single blend is possible at all.
The blender
Jota Tanaka and the art of balance
Master Blender Jota Tanaka brings the distillery's malts and grains together, and his idea of Fuji is a pure, refined style built on harmony rather than power.
The 50th Anniversary releases are his tribute to five decades at Gotemba, drawing on whiskies from across the distillery's history.
Six whiskies, one mountain, and a very good night in Surry Hills.
