Japanese whisky-maker, The House of Suntory, has a new sherry cask offering for the new year – the Yamazaki Sherry Cask 2016 – a single malt whisky. The Yamazaki Sherry Cask 2016 has been stored in casks of Oloroso sherry for three years before being sent back to Suntory’s Yamazaki distillery where they are blended […]
A 50-Year-Old bottle of Yamazaki single malt whisky sold at the Bonhams Hong Kong auction for $33,189. The whisky was aged for 50 years then bottled in 2011 in a Japanese oak cask. It was the highest price ever paid for a Japanese-sourced whisky at an auction. The Yamazaki was one of only 150 bottled […]
Bonhams Hong Kong will be hosting the largest Asian whisky auction later this month when they auction off more than 200 of rare and collectible Asian whisky in The Rare Single Malt Whisky Auction. Among the items up for bid on the block include the Karuizawa 21-Year-Old in a crystal decanter along with Karuizawa Geisha […]
Summer is not normally considered to be whiskey’s best season but there is always room for growth and they found that room at the Soradoko rooftop whiskey garden in Kyoto, Japan. At the Soradoko, their specialties are whiskey highballs but this summer they have added the whiskey shave ice as a special summertime treat for […]
Suntory has released a pair of no-age single malt whiskies – the Hakushu Distiller’s reserve and Yamazaki Distiller’s Reserve – each containing whisky which has been aged between eight and 20 years. Hakusku’s liquid comes from a young lightly peated malt with an heavily peated 18-year-old American whisky blend resulting in a 43% alcohol content […]
Do you live in the USA and want some 30-year-old Hibiki whiskey from Japanese distiller, Suntory? Good luck. Unless you live in Japan, are extraordinarily wealthy or have some other very good reason why you have access to Japanese whiskies, it’s more than likely you will not be enjoying the smooth and sweet taste of […]