Last week we shared the press release for Whisky Hammer’s upcoming auction featuring a bottle of Yamazaki 55yo, due to end 28th November 2021 here. “First unveiled to the world in 2020, the Yamazaki 55 Year Old was limited to just 100 bottles which were sold exclusively in Japan via lottery. Over a year later, … Continue reading News: The Yamazaki 55yo Sold Through Whisky Hammer For…
--- Yamazaki 55 Year Old expected to attract global attention at online whisky auction --- 55yo A Scottish whisky auction firm will showcase the super-rare Yamazaki 55 Year Old in its auction, starting Friday 19 November 2021 – an iconic release which has proven incredibly sought after and notoriously difficult for enthusiasts to find for … Continue reading Press Release: Yamazaki 55 Year Old Goes Up For Auction Today
A couple of weeks ago, Nikka Whisky From The Barrel - one of the world’s best selling Japanese whiskies - lost its ability to actually call itself a “Japanese Whisky”. Yep, you read that right: the world-renowned whisky from Japan will no longer be called Japanese Whisky. Why is that? Well, in February 2021, a … Continue reading Nikka Whisky From The Barrel – No Longer “Japanese Whisky”
It is widely recognised that Japanese whiskies are becoming more and more world-renowned, particularly so since the end of 2014 when Jim Murray surprised the critics by awarding his whisky of the year for 2015 to Yamazaki’s 2013 Sherry Cask. At the start of 2014 though, Suntory released two new whiskies into the market in … Continue reading Tasting Notes: Yamazaki – Distiller’s Reserve
Over the past couple of decades the world market has seen a strong rise to prominence for Japanese whiskies. Japan is currently the third largest national producers of whisky (behind Scotland and the US respectively) and there are countless volumes written about how it compares to the traditional Scotch whiskies. If you actually look into … Continue reading Whisky Business: Japan vs Scotland – A Side-By-Side Comparison
It is fair to say that there is a lot of money in the whisky industry. Japanese dram giants Suntory are more than proving this fact by sending a batch of whiskies up to the International Space Station in the name of science! Whilst this may have been done before, it still is hard to … Continue reading Suntory Whiskies That Are Out Of This World
...and it has said "Ho ta lah!" - or at least that's the closest phonetic spelling I can find for the Taiwanese equivalent to cheers! Yes, the World Whisky Awards for 2015 were held recently to determine the best whiskies in the world across a multitude of categories and they have awarded their top … Continue reading The world has spoken in 2015…
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