Japanese whisky, just like Scotch and bourbon, is a delicious spirit worth sipping. One of its shining stars is Suntory Toki.
Whiskey has been made commercially in Japan since the 1920s after a student who studied in Glasgow, Masataka Taketsuru, moved home with his Scottish wife and helped start the Yamazaki distillery ...
Above all else, the name that continues to come to mind first for many is Yamazaki. The distillery where Japanese whisky was born has been putting the country on the whisky map for over a century ...
Yamazaki 12 was first released in 1984, making 2024 its 40th anniversary. It was originally called 'pure malt,' as that was the Japanese equivalent of single malt but has since adopted Scotch ...
Particularly successful is the Yamazaki distillery in Osaka prefecture. Rare whiskies from their collection of single malts now sell for thousands of dollars. We tried a 12 year-old single malt ...
Among the winning bottles was Yamazaki Distiller's Reserve which beat ... The blind tasting comes at a "precarious time" for the dominance of Scotch whisky, said Jack Rear in The Telegraph.
Suntory Spirits Ltd. got the ball rolling when it began construction of its Yamazaki Distillery in Osaka Prefecture in 1923. The upgraded Yamazaki Distillery was shown to the media on Oct. 10 this ...
Shinjiro Torii, Suntory’s founder who is Nobuhiro’s great-grandfather, set about building Japan’s first malt whisky distillery, the Yamazaki Distillery in Osaka Prefecture, in fall 1923.