The White Oak Distillery is based in Japan, in Akashi, a city that is part of the Hyōgo prefecture on the island of Honshū and which is also famous for being the headquarters of Kawasaki, a well-known motorcycle factory. The distillery began its activity in 1888 with the production of sake and shochu. Only about thirty years later it began to produce small quantities of whiskey and over the years it has established itself as one of the main producers of pure malt and whiskey in the whole country. The company is very attentive to every step of the whiskey production; from distillation, rigorously performed using traditional methods and discontinuous stills, to refinement, which takes place in oak barrels for a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 8 years for pure malt.