The world is an ephemeral place. Things come and go, are born and die. Nothing really lasts forever and whisky is no exception. Due to the current whiskey boom in Japan, the two giants Suntory and Nikka are refocusing their products to meet the increasing demand. Of course, Japanese whisky fans look forward to trying […]
Although sacrilege to some purists who want their best whisky mixer straight or on the rocks, Japanese whisky is extremely good for cocktails. In fact, some bars around the world import it especially for this purpose, as bourbon or Scotch simply does not do the trick in their minds. According to David Shenaut, a bar […]
Some of our readers have been quite interested in the Suntory Old bottles. Apparently the word on the internet is that they are quite old, as in 19th century old. It’s true that they are old, old enough for Sean Connery to drink it in the 1967 Bond movie You Only Llve Twice , but […]
Nikka has featured quite prominently in the news for the past few months following the popularity of the NKH morning show Massan about the live of it’s founder Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Rita. It should therefore come as no surprise that interest in visiting the Nikka Yoichi distillery in Hokkaido, which hosts among other […]
Whisky fans currently in Tokyo might want to take note, Nikka is putting up a gig; for a few days in July the company will be opening up a special bar to capitalize on the current popularity of whisky. The bar is called the “Nikka Whisky Story Bar Tokyo” and is located in the party […]
Japanese whisky is enjoying a surge in popularity in more countries than just Japan, the French for example are mad for it. In 2012, Nikka alone sold around 300.000 bottles of whisky in France, by 2014, of the roughly one million bottles of Japanese whisky sold in Europe, 600.000 went to France. The French love […]
The Suntory Hibiki is as popular as ever, in March this year the company released a new blended of this whisky christened Hibiki Japanese Harmony. This blend has been well received by whisky fans and wet thought we’d introduce it to you. The blend is developed by a third-generation blender named Shingo Torii alongside with […]
A few weeks ago we did a brief introduction of a few of the makers of Japanese whisky, this week however we are going to go into more detail and tell you a thing or two about a legend in the Japanese whisky biz; Seiichi Koshimizu, the chief blender of Suntory whisky. Seiichi is an […]
In a previous post we reported that Nikka was to discontinue its oldest brand Yoichi, the reason being that there is a shortage of whisky on the market following the popularity of the NHK morning show Massan on the life of Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Rita. As demand has increased massively Nikka it trying […]
Europe is lucky, it has Marcin Miller, and without him there might not be much Japanese whisky on the continent. Marcin Miller is the co-founder and owner of Number One Drinks, a worldwide distributor of fine Japanese whiskies such as Chichibu, Hanyu, Kawasaki, Karuizawa and Mars. He used to be Editor and Publisher of Whisky […]
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