![]() The juice is made from malt whisky that is aged in large puncheon barrels (480 liters, compared to around 200 liters for a standard barrel). Peated Scotch Blind Taste Test: Our Professional Taster Picks His Earthy Favorites.World Class ‘Sipping’ Single Malt Whiskies Under $100, Ranked.The Winning Scotch And Bourbon Whiskeys From This Year’s Ascot Awards.Chivas: Which Scotch Whisky Brand Will Win Our Blind Test? All Of Johnnie Walker’s Core Whisky Line, Blind Tasted And Ranked.Let’s dive in!Īlso Read: The Top 5 UPROXX Scotch Whisky Posts of The Last Six Months Which is why I’m cracking open each bottle and telling you what’s inside. While whiskies at this price are largely collectible bottles that end up in vaults for trades, flips, and profits, these whiskies are also incredibly drinkable. What sets this set of whiskies apart is that it’s actually available in the United States this year (along with only 11 other countries worldwide). And that still might be a steal, considering it totals up to $1,970, for a set of whiskies that easily cost three to five times that much each on the secondary market. Naturally, you’ll pay a premium for the experience, as each bottle in the set costs $450, plus $620 to add the Mizunara bottle. The 2022 Limited Edition Yamazaki Tsukuriwake Selection includes four bottles of the really good stuff, including a bottle of Yamazaki Puncheon, Yamazaki Peated Malt, Yamazaki Spanish Oak, and the fleeting Yamazaki Mizunara. Luckily, there’s a new set of Japanese whiskies from Suntory that allows you to sample four incredible bottles from Japan’s oldest (commercial) whisky stills at the Yamazaki Distillery. The best way to experience the beauty of Japanese whisky? Try some of the good stuff, of course. And while Japanese whisky is inherently tied to Scotch whisky traditions, the terroir, water, grains, yeast, and process (fermenting, distilling, and aging) are purely Japanese. Japanese whisky also possesses a singular level of refinement, elevating the juice, and the price, to rare heights. It comes from far away and tends to be pricy, before it even gets to these shores. "This is an example of when price is matched not just by rarity, but by quality."Īfter releasing 100 bottles in 2020 in Japan through a lottery system, Suntory has expanded on the release in 2021 by offering a very limited batch of another 100 bottles to the rest of the world, with a number allocated to key Travel Retail partners, including Gebr Heinemann, Unifree’s joint venture partner at the Turkish gateway.Įarlier this year, a bottle of Yamazaki 55 was sold at a duty free store in Istanbul airport for €488,000 which is equivalent to about Rs 4.14 crore.Japanese whisky intrinsically feels more elite. ![]() This whisky epitomises the key elements collectors search for in a collectible whisky: dark, heavily sherried whisky released in limited numbers with a very high-age statement," it stated. "The Yamazaki 55 is the preeminent whisky from this scarce supply, and it sits in a league of its own. It takes time to take in its inner beauty with the smell of Japanese incense and stripped old wood, like the Toshodaiji Temple in Nara.’’Īged whiskies are now quite limited in Japan - so much so that Suntory’s aged statement brands have either been discontinued or are only released on highly limited allocation, notes Sotheby's in its website. But the Yamazaki 55 is more like an old Buddhist statue. Together they mastered the signature art of blending it properly and lending it its characteristic depth and complexity after maturing for more than 55 years.ĭescribing the liquor, Shinji Fukuyo, one of Suntory's chief blenders says in their website, "Very old Scotch Whiskies gave me this impression of them being perfect Greek sculptures with beautiful toned beauty. The right blend was formulated by Suntory’s fifth-generation chief blender Shinji Fukuyo and third-generation master blender Shingo Torii. This year a 750 ml of this whisky and was sold for a whopping $8,00,000 (about Rs 65.2 crore) at Sotheby’s auction, making a single shot of the drink cost about Rs 4.7 crore.įirst distilled in 1960, the Yamazaki 55 is the oldest single malt whisky in the history of the House of Suntory and is a blend of three exceptional single malts from the 1960s distilled under the supervision of Suntory’s founder Shinjiro Torii and later aged in Mizunara casks. The Yamazaki 55 is the oldest and most valuable whisky ever bottled in Japan.
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