Recent Japanese Whisky Articles

Nikka's Taketsuru Pure Malt Essentials: A Five-Year Series That Counts Down to a Historic Milestone There are anniversary releases, and then there are projects with genuine intention behind them — ones that use time as a narrative device rather than a marketing hook. Nikka Whisky's newly launched

Yamazaki 25 Years Old Claims Fourth Straight ISC Trophy as Suntory Locks Up Japanese Whisky Producer of the Year — Again There are dominant performances in sports, in music, in art — and then there are the kind of sustained runs that stop feeling like competition and start feeling like inevitabili

When Two Legacies Converge: Hibiki's 2026 Chiso Kimono Collaboration Signals a New Chapter for Japanese Whisky There is a particular kind of patience embedded in the finest things Japan produces — a willingness to let time do the heavy lifting, to trust that precision applied over centuries will y

Inside Sotheby's Nightcap Festival: How a $625,000 Ghost Whisky Shook the Auction World When Sotheby's shuttered the Breuer building's galleries at the close of September 19, the house had more than a successful auction to celebrate. It had announced, in no uncertain financial terms, that the rare w

Japanese Whisky Explodes in Duty Free While Cognac Posts One of Its Worst Years in Decades The airport duty free shop has long been a battlefield for the world's premium spirits brands — a place where travelers loosen their wallets, check their watches at the gate, and grab a bottle of something t

The Ghost of Cask #5627: How Karuizawa's 1960 Vintage Became the Most Mythologized Bottle in Japanese Whisky There are spirits, and then there are objects of obsession. The Karuizawa 1960 — a 52-year-old single malt born from a cask that no longer exists, in a distillery that no longer stands, mad

Hibiki 12 Year Old Is Back — But You'll Need a Boarding Pass to Get One Eleven years is a long time to wait for a whisky. Long enough that the bottles sitting in the back of liquor store shelves became collector's relics. Long enough that secondary market prices climbed to absurd heights. Long eno

Sato Shiki Launches the Masterpiece PX: Japanese Whisky's Most Ambitious Expression Yet There is a category of whisky release that demands more than a simple tasting note. It demands context — the weight of history, the logic of geography, the deliberate arc of a distillery's ambition. Sato Shiki'

After a Decade of Silence, Nikka's Miyagikyo Single Malt 10 Years Old Is Back — and American Fans Have a Narrow Window to Get It There are releases that generate noise, and there are releases that carry genuine historical weight. The return of Nikka's Miyagikyo Single Malt 10 Years Old belongs fir

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