Tag: Hibiki
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Whiskey Wednesday: Hibiki’s Resonant Disappearance
Despite being a self avowed fanatic of American whiskey the thing I’ve found myself writing about and drinking the most recently has been Japanese whisky. The last time we spoke way back in December I was drinking poetic about the Hakushu malts and the fact that though they often seem to be in the shadow…
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Whiskey Wednesday: The Yamazaki Price
What would you do with $130,000? Buy a house? A Tesla? Travel the world? Or maybe you decide screw it and go for the most expensive bottle of whisky ever sold: the Yamazaki 50 year old single malt 2005 release. In October of 2016 one of the 250 bottles of Yamazaki distilled in the mid-1950s…
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Whiskey Wednesday: The Harmonious Hibiki Harmony
In recent years Japan, traditionally the Land of the Rising Sun could easily be called the Land of the Rising Whisky. And while that is a terrible turn of phrase, it is nevertheless true. Ever since Glenfiddich started promoting their Single Malt in the States in 1963 whiskey drinkers- especially malt whiskey drinkers, have been…