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 ...

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.

The House of Suntory founder Shinjiro Torii began ... The Art Of Blended Whisky Speaking with Shinji Fukuyo it is clear that for him, blending whisky is an art form in itself.

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 ...