Suntory Drinkthrough | Yamazaki, Hakushu, Hibiki and more! | Curiosity Public 

Great video guys! Hakushu is my favorite of the bunch. The pear and apple notes with threads of delicate smoke are special. Cheers guys!

You guys be makin my day man. Thank you and keep it up 🙏🏻👍🏻👌🏻

Love it. My fav is Hibiki 17. Now, considering limitations, Yamazaki if I can find it.

Great drinkthrough!

I literally just bought Suntory Harmony and The Yaz 12 yesterday hahah. What are the odds you make this right after? That’s awesomeness

It's July 2024 and at Total Wine here in Minnesota. The Yamazaki and Hakushu are $200 a bottle, and the Hibiki is $100. I was able to grab a bottle of Yamazki 12 for $180 and Hibiki for $75, but that was last year prices.

Harmony is one of my favorites. It's gone up in price since I first bought it, from $57, now to $75. If I can find it!

thanks great review!!

All that I can fin locally is Yamazaki and Hibiki. Yamazaki 12 is a staple on my bar. I have enough bottle to make it through the shortage. Would love to see a Drinkthrough for Old Forester. Most of their whiskeys are available across the country and there is enough variety to make it a good show.

Hibiki Harmony is a great pour!!

The Whisk(e)y Vault dipped sushi in Whisky 😹😹😹

Awesome review !

I like the subtle nod at 21:07

Chita is the grain whisky component for Suntory products

My Monday fix

Yamazaki is very good and extremely balanced. But Hakushu is better with tropical fruit, pine forest, light smoke, and apples.

Another great drinkthrough. My tastes usually lean toward the balanced Hibiki line, though I did try and enjoyed the Hakushu 12.

Love your videos. Watch a lot of different whiskey channels and you guys are the best in the business! All of you are very likable and include great banter. PS... BRING BACK THE BUTCHER

I have this full lineup. I picked up two bottles of Chita back in summer while traveling. I hated it at first but it opens up a lot and gets much better. Still very weird but the grain is very dominant. I don’t recommend unless you’re able to get it for a rational price.

Amazing!!!

Yamazaki is worth every penny of the $120 or so per bottle in my area, but man that’s a hard find. Hibiki is becoming more available and it’s fantastic too! Just scored a bottle of Hakushu, can’t wait to unscrew (not pop) that top

Thanks for this one. Last year in early October my wife was working in Japan. While she was there I was perfecting my Whisky Want List. Sadly, that tragic typhoon forced her to blast out of Tokyo a day early, the one time she had for shopping. You guys got to do a tasting for me.

I am surprised that no one caught pop corn flavor from Chita. To me, it was the first flavor I got . Anyhow, this is a great line up!. Please do Nikka Drinkthrough as well!

Hibiki harmony and steak believe it or not is amazing straight with a large cracked cube of ice

When I went to Japan I had many suntory highballs out of a can. I enjoyed them quite a bit. Dillon is right in saying you mostly get alcohol without much flavor. Still good imo.

Good review, I bought a bottle of toki once and that was my last. Hibiki however is where the moneys at.

Yamazaki 12 is awesome. Was my first try of a Japanese whiskey....unfortunately that bottle is finished and now it's impossible to find another around me.

Hakushu is also my go to .... and yup, I use Toki for highballs, it's great for that ... Tried the Chita at the Trunk hotel in Shiubuya, and brought a couple of bottles home with me. Thank god I did that because they are overpriced AF out here! haha

I feel embarrassed now that Toki is the only Japanese whisky I've had...😅

Tried the hakushu 12, it was amazing

Old Forrester Drinkthough !!!!

Sitting by my liquors cabinet have a bottle of each one. I didn’t realize how much of a Japanese whisky fan I was till just now lol .

Chita is a grain-only distillery with massive continuous distillation. That is the only one of the whiskies you have here that is widely available here in Japan. Definitely aimed for highball consumption. Amazing how most of those are easier to find in the US than Japan. Hakushu 12 is not sold here anymore. Toki never was. Yamazaki 12 will cost $175 on the secondary market--impossible to find at MSRP.

I keep kicking myself for not buying Hibiki Harmony years ago...silly how much it costs now and how hard it is to even find sometimes (Chicago area) and sad the age statements are gone. I will find a bottle though, and I WILL watch Lost in Translation while sipping it.

I just found the Hakushu 12 at my local neighborhood Trader Joe's for $110.

Thanks for the drink through! Never tried a Japanese Whiskey, looking forward to trying some in the near future. The Chita notes remind me of the brine notes some find in Jefferson’s Ocean cask strength. That’s probably way off but I had to say it, first thing I thought of. Cheers!🥃👍🇺🇸

The Yamazaki 12 is awsome

Agree with Dutch with pretty much everything here. Hakushu is my favorite although I still also love the Yamazaki. Hibiki is generally my first pour of the night, but it doesn’t hold up once you start pouring the others. Guys should have gone Hibiki second. Toki... Bought it, have been trying to pawn it off on people ever since. Just don’t like it.

Hilarious coming across this video now with Yamazaki 12 going for $200+ retail. Insanity.

Even I knew about the robot dog 🤣😎🥂

I think Hakushu 12 was discontinued....

Guys, Yamazaki 12 or Glenlivet 18? I have Nikka 12, Nikka Pure Malt and Hibiki…can go either way but seems like Glen 18 is better value. Thanks!

You should use the Chita as the binder for sushi rice!!!

Love the channel. Would have been cool to include the 18yr?

Harmony is $120 here in the Midwest

Curiosity - have you tried Suntory AO? How does that compare to these

The green box is my favorite! Where can I find the chita?

Surprised they got "salty" from Chita. I get 'grain' and a subtle 'shortbread' taste.

Chita is single grain whisky

Hey... I'm 1st time here... Hello...

What about making the intro a bit longer (and louder) still? The over 30s long intro just don't push it far enough for me. :)

You really need to put an ice cube in the HIbiki to fully open it up. Please review the Hibiki again, except compare it w/a single ice cube added.

You bourbon guys make me smile with your Scotch confusion, Yamazaki is more like a Speyside (sweet smooth and sherried) Hakushu is more in the Islay style with smoke and peat. Glenmorangie has no smoke at all Dutch ! It is the most Speyside of Scotches very smooth and sweet. Toki is straight up a mixing whisky young harsh and not for sipping (like Haig Clubman the David Beckham marketed rough stuff). Suntory have tried for decades to ape the Scotch styles and "outscotch" them. You are lucky to still get the 12s there we only get the NAS stuff now and having compared the Yamazaki 12 is levels above the Distillers Reserve we get now. Chita is grain whisky which was traditionally used to balance malts in blending, Not sure why anyone would drink it neat it is rough ! Hibiki is my favourite as I always get all 3 distillery flavours on the palate, it is rdiculously overpriced though and again the Hibiki 12 was superior to the NAS Harmony

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The little guy is annoying. Picking apart a $30 bottle vs a $200 bottle is asinine and pretentious. Not pleased by anything but the most expensive bottles. The guy in the middle's the best. He''s always happy to be there drinking whisky on some random afternoon. Very appreciative and always smiling.

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is it me or is all the editing and into stuff just annoying