One of the most commonly held misconceptions about Scotch whisky is that all of them are smoky. That’s far from ... senior scotch ambassador at Beam Suntory. “It takes longer to dry the ...

Japanese whisky is known for its Scotch-like character but with less of the smoky, peat-forward notes ... The Hakushu distillery (which operates under Suntory Whisky) uses a mountainous granite ...

From that point, interest in Japanese whisky "exploded", with elusive bottles selling for hundreds of thousands of pounds at auction, and House of Suntory introducing a series of entry-level ...

both from Suntory, with his holiday dinner. “If I drink the Yamazaki, it makes me feel like working,” he said. “I find myself thinking about whiskey and fade out of conversations with my ...

a smoky and rich 18-year-old Hakushu – the sister distillery to Yamazaki, built in the beautiful surroundings of the Japanese Southern Alps. 2024 was a prestigious year for Hibiki, Suntory’s flagship ...

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.