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.