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.

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 ...

Nearly a century ago, Suntory’s founder Shinjiro Torii went searching far and wide for just the right water to distil whisky domestically. He finally settled on building Japan’s first malt ...

Malt Whiskey Market Malt Whiskey Market size was valued at $4.3 billion in 2021, and is estimated to reach $6.7 billion by 2031, growing at ...