Buy Hibiki Whiskey. The House of Suntory celebrates 100 years of whisky making this year. To mark the milestone. The brand have launch a range of centennial releases and we’re delight to say we’ve got them in our very own Suntory shop-in-shop, including Yamazaki, Hakushu, and Hibiki whisky.

Hibiki whisky is launch in 1989, in order to commemorate Suntory’s 90th anniversary. The Hibiki line is not only Japan’s most highly awarded blended whisky. But it has been recognise internationally numerous times with countless awards and stands tall as a proud bastion of Japanese whisky-making prowess.

Rather beautifully, ‘hibiki’ means resonance in Japanese, and this speaks to the artistic sensibility of the product. Hibiki is born in the form of a blend that is the result of sampling and tasting age malt whiskies from one million casks at Suntory. The current incarnations are made from a blend of more than 30 individual malt and mellow grain whiskies. And the final blend is topped off with a whisky age more than 30 years. This concludes a process that sees the master blender taste over 300 malt whisky samples a day. From its inception to its current forms, Hibiki’s craft and method reflects its core ideologies of harmony and resonance with a caring and precise vision.

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We can not forget the Hibiki ideals when it comes to presentation, much like the careful blending process. Each element is assemble to reflect Japanese culture, and to convey Japanese tradition. Each aspect has the unmistakable character of Japanese aesthetic, such as the painstakingly handcraft Echizen paper label. The careful calligraphy or the packaging, with 24 facets to represent the ancient Japanese lunar calendar. Even the presence of purple is deliberate, for it’s regards as Japan’s most noble color, and so a purple ribbon encircles the neck of each elegant decanter bottle accordingly.
Having map its own identity within the Suntory name, Hibiki has gone from strength to strength as a brand. Heck, it is actually feature in a fake commercial in the film Lost In Translation (2003). In which the quite brilliant Bill Murray stars. But then you knew that already, didn’t you? Buy Hibiki Whiskey
A respectful, distinctive and superbly individual array of Japanese blended whiskies await you dear reader. You’ll know by now the name Japanese whisky is carving for itself within the international scene. Now it’s your turn to become the latest convert. I can’t think of a better place to start than Hibiki.