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

[@General.Legion]

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.

[@WhiskeyTornado]

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

[@nikkayamazaki]

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

[@mcwine18]

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

[@ernieforni3221]

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.

[@dianebetten]

Great drinkthrough!

[@kbarnes0]

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!

[@YoJimBo851610]

Chita is the grain whisky component for Suntory products

[@GregD87]

I like the subtle nod at 21:07

[@alleckssadler7379]

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

[@YoJimBo851610]

Hibiki Harmony is a great pour!!

[@terrykost4677]

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.

[@whatsthepoint170]

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

[@Maatson_]

So good but price is going up more and more. :( 18 year is getting so expensive

[@steveno7058]

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

[@YoJimBo851610]

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

[@johna4488]

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

[@wonjunekim3421]

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!

[@ccjacks3]

Was just gonna suggest the Nikka Drinkthrough. That might be harder to find. SFTB is amazing stuff.

[@wonjunekim3421]

@@ccjacks3 True that it's harder to find in the US. Taketsuru 21yrs, I tried at the Yoichi Distillery, was the best Japanese whiskey I've ever had. I can still sense toffee flavor from it. AH~~~~~

[@markfrederick4082]

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.

[@jonphillips416]

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

[@BrandonMeyer1641]

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.

[@czrs85]

My Monday fix

[@whiskyfanhi]

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

[@stvsueoka1]

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

[@irishsausage6]

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.

[@wongjefx980]

Old Forrester Drinkthough !!!!

[@boosk2127]

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.

[@kojis456]

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

[@Romeshdesilva]

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

[@pressman1788]

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!🥃👍🇺🇸

[@Maatson_]

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 .

[@PorscheSpeedster-kz6nc]

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

[@kiano1920]

Awesome review !

[@anthonyoksmusic1608]

Even I knew about the robot dog 🤣😎🥂

[@ganesankpillay3768]

thanks great review!!

[@YoJimBo851610]

I think Hakushu 12 was discontinued....

[@redslate]

All the Suntory 12s and 18s were discontinued.

[@Boehme417]

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

[@cyama3661]

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.

[@Thetache]

Stick some coke in your Toki and it makes sense much like the Haig Clubman ( which even tells you to mix it on the bottle )

[@Pineconeboy55]

Harmony is $120 here in the Midwest

[@thomasdantas]

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

[@Elijahli16]

Don’t be embarrassed! I’ve had most of these and they are amazing, but I’ll drink Toki straight any day. It’s a great whiskey

[@TheEdquito]

Im in the same boat 😂..... Will be trying other flavors soon.

[@VectorAero]

Toki is the only one I can afford 😅. I only recently tried whisky and Toki is my first Japanese whisky and first whisky in general. As a lightweight I do enjoy sipping it straight. Would love to try Hibiki but it's $170 CAD right now so no that'd be wasted on me (Toki is $70 CAD).

[@urfan7850]

Amazing!!!

[@lgeez7599]

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

[@blackice3395]

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

[@CuriosityPublic]

From what we can tell it is only available in Europe and Asia. If you don't live there, try finding an online shop in Europe that will ship to wherever you are. Good luck!

[@blackice3395]

@@CuriosityPublic thank you!!!! Big fan of yalls

[@CuriosityPublic]

Cheers!

[@blackice3395]

Update: a friend of mine just got back from Saint Martin and he told me that he found the cheetah there. He's going back again in September I'm getting two bottles I'm going off y'alls word!!! Thx guys!!!👌🏿

[@EugeneTayam]

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!

[@CuriosityPublic]

If you can find the older 43% bottling of the Glenlivet 18 - that's probably the winner - but both the Glen 18 and Yama 12 are solid pours.

[@saintsocramnymaia5511]

Tried the hakushu 12, it was amazing

[@orion2250]

The Yamazaki 12 is awsome

[@redslate]

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

[@cascaderetriever7618]

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

[@Alpha-Alpha]

Chita is single grain whisky

[@christophermiller1844]

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.

[@Thetache]

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

[@jorgotto3662]

Confusion? Not sure what they said that was technically wrong. Glenmorangie was much more peated in the distant past, and continues to have light peat today. The phenols are low for sure but it's there. Agree with you that Toki is a waste of money IMO considering you're getting nothing other than the Suntory name. Plenty of other scotch or scotch adjacent brands do a better mixing job. As for using terms like Speyside to describe "sweet" and "non-peat" is falling out of favor considering, Cragganmore, BenRiach, etc but I get what you're trying to say.

[@Thetache]

@@jorgotto3662 To put Glenmorangie in comparison with Hakushu will confuse the uninitiated it is much more akin to Yamazaki, and to say something used to be different is a pointless point, Glenmorangie NOW is a sweet whisky not a smoky whisky and would sit perfectly in the Speyside style lineup.

[@steveno7058]

Hakushu is NOTHING like heavily peated Islay Scotch. Not even close. It’s more like a peated Speyside or Highland. Islay peat has a distinct medicinal and marine profile. Nothing like Hakushu.

[@redslate]

The Chita is a bit grainy, but I enjoy it on occasion as a sipper. It reminds me a bit of Redbreast (albeit less refined).

[@jozefhrusecky3085]

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. :)

[@koelekahuna9370]

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.

[@bigb2539]

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

[@YoJimBo851610]

Christopher Columbus 1st

[@fap-p4r]

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[@deathlogic1]

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