Advice on whisky

[Ric]

The Yamazaki is about $800 here so $600 is ok. Nice present for someone!

Thanks opusman, I think I feel better now! .

 

[Ric]

Not at the duty free shop, usually much cheaper if you have time to shop.
However aged Japanese whisky is hard to find now.

Thanks for the info jasonking. Will get them to go shopping in town rather than at the duty free. But i think it will be quite a while before I buy another bottle!!

 

[jasonking]

As a teetotaler, I have recently just bought 2 bottles of Japanese whisky as a gift, a bottle of Yamazaki 18 yrs single malt and a Hibiki 21 yrs blended.
I just went by recommendations and have no idea of the cost but was told that the place to buy them is in Japan where it would be the cheapest place to buy from. So I asked a friend who was travelling there to get them for me at Narita duty free.

Received the said bottles today and I had a shock when I got the receipt. A$600 each!! (Y50,000 each!!). Seriously??

How does the price compared to Oz?

Is Japan the cheapest place to buy them?

Cheers!

Holy S*&T looks like the Yamazaki 18yr you have is the limited edition and not the usual bottling which goes for $800.
A little bird told me the Y50,000 yen from Narita Duty Free is the limited edition and is $1500.
Does it comes in wooden case?
https://www.mybottleshop.com.au/yamazaki-18-year-old-limited-edition-single-malt-whisky

The Hibiki 21yr is $1000 here in OZ.
https://www.nicks.com.au/hibiki-21-year-old-blended-japanese-whisky-700ml

Santa smiles on your gift recipients.

 

[love_the_life]

Holy S*&T looks like the Yamazaki 18yr you have is the limited edition and not the usual bottling which goes for $800.
A little bird told me the Y50,000 yen from Narita Duty Free is the limited edition and is $1500.
Does it comes in wooden case?
https://www.mybottleshop.com.au/yamazaki-18-year-old-limited-edition-single-malt-whisky

The Hibiki 21yr is $1000 here in OZ.
https://www.nicks.com.au/hibiki-21-year-old-blended-japanese-whisky-700ml

Santa smiles on your gift recipients.

Would need to be gold plated for me....

 

[Ric]

Yup. It's the one in the wooden case! Holy S*&T is right!!! Wow! $1500 & $1000!! Seems that I bagged a bargain then!! I am definitely feeling a lot better now!!

The bottles are for a grand old man, grandpa of Ric's Jr friend who invited us to his private hacienda just outside Madrid end of December.

 

[Ric]

The packaging and presentation are really exquisite!!





Such bargain compared to Oz,maybe I should get a bottle each for myself!....even if I don't drink!!

 

[Abdul_A350]

No quibbles with the retail prices, but I am pretty sure you are just paying (a lot) extra for the bottle on the Hibiki 21, and that the innards are 'standard'.

I would also be interested if anyone can tell me the difference between the 'Limited Edition' Yamazaki 18 and the standard 25,000 yen product. If anything it is just a slight difference in casking to the best of my knowledge.

These are very much targeted at foreigners, not that there is necessarily anything wrong with that in and of itself.

I would not serve it in any of our Tokyo bars, and I cannot imagine it being on too many menus. I do not want to encourage this sort of bubble.

 

[Ric]

I do not want to encourage this sort of bubble.

Well, you have just burst mine! :-|

 

[Abdul_A350]

Well, you have just burst mine! :-|

Well, sorry about that. But it is not like there are especially good vintages of a 21-year-old whisky... when there is all this hype about Japan, I would just be spending more money on Scotch or elsewhere, and waiting for things to return to some semblance of normal.

The duty-free editions exist in part to prevent even greater supply problems... there are tourists from a certain large country starting with C who buy up basically everything these days.

My daughter struggles to keep a six-bottle inventory at her Kobe bar at the moment, not so much because of demand over the counter as difficulty getting it wholesale.

 

[jasonking]

The packaging and presentation are really exquisite!!

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Such bargain compared to Oz,maybe I should get a bottle each for myself!....even if I don't drink!!

The Hibiki 21yr is also of limited edition, only 2000 released.
Both make great gifts and drinks.
https://www.mybottleshop.com.au/hibiki-21-year-old-mount-fuji-limited-edition-700ml

 

[ozshiraz]

DM has ARDBEG 10 on special at the mo' <$70 is good buying for this peaty drop - Offer ends 11th Dec' 16.

https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_903743/ardbeg-10-year-old-scotch-whisky-700ml

Picked up a bottle of BUNNAHABHAIN 12yo recently, testing continues - initial taste so,so but may have been prior
palate influences.

 

[ozshiraz]

Some Whisky reading - https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/w...mail&utm_campaign=twe-world-whisky-05-12-2016

 

[ozshiraz]

[QUOTE
Picked up a bottle of BUNNAHABHAIN 12yo recently, testing continues - initial taste so,so but may have been prior
palate influences.[/QUOTE]

Been quiet here so will put up a few comments - having enjoyed the balance of the BUNNAHABHAIN12, have to say it's pretty good but I couldn't go past the Tal10 for value.

In TAS. in Jan, picked up a HELLYERS ROAD PEATED, now this is very nice and smoooth as.........., better than Tal10 but a line call re $$ value.

Also tasted the LARK SINGLE CASK, as good a whiskey ever sampled !!!, delicious.

Arrived home with a Sullivans Cove Single Cask French Oak Whisky 700mL, 47.5%, unopened and in the safe for a future significant family event, as yet unconceived

Some real Aussie quality whiskey being produced in Tassie, must explore the HELLYERS ROAD further !

 

[Major]

I grabbed a bottle of Glen Deveron 16 years Highland single malt from the duty free recently. I had not come across this one before but found it very smooth

Enjoying it immensely

 

[opusman]

Give Starward a go, a really nice Aussie whisky without the price tag of the Tassie distilleries.

 

[AnnaB]

Been quiet here so will put up a few comments - having enjoyed the balance of the BUNNAHABHAIN12, have to say it's pretty good but I couldn't go past the Tal10 for value.

In TAS. in Jan, picked up a HELLYERS ROAD PEATED, now this is very nice and smoooth as.........., better than Tal10 but a line call re $$ value.

Also tasted the LARK SINGLE CASK, as good a whiskey ever sampled !!!, delicious.

Arrived home with a Sullivans Cove Single Cask French Oak Whisky 700mL, 47.5%, unopened and in the safe for a future significant family event, as yet unconceived

Some real Aussie quality whiskey being produced in Tassie, must explore the HELLYERS ROAD further !

Hellyers Road Peated is a really nice drop. I did prefer the Pinot Noir though. It can be found at duty free in Perth at quite a good price, about $75. Hellyers also do a fab Irish Cream for those who likes Baileys.

Give Starward a go, a really nice Aussie whisky without the price tag of the Tassie distilleries.

I tried Starward too and it wasnt bad either. I did prefer Hellyers though, got a bit more bite and complexity with the Pinot or Peated.

 

[ozshiraz]

I grabbed a bottle of Glen Deveron 16 years Highland single malt from the duty free recently. I had not come across this one before but found it very smooth
Enjoying it immensely

Thanks Major, not familiar with brand, see DM's has the GlenDeveron12 @ $76, must get one soon. It has quite good reviews with reviewers mentioning smooth with a long taste and unique flavours such as "ginger beer/apples".

Sounds interesting.

 

[ozshiraz]

Haven't given STARWARD a honest taste, a small nip at a tasting left no lasting impression, find that
more than that taste test is needed to appreciate some whiskys.

The LARK though, well worth it it you can afford the $$$'s at around $150 / 500ml............not something I can do to often

 

[jasonking]

Dan Murphy's have a member's preorder for Glenlivet Ordachory $300. Only 287 bottles from a single cask.
Highly unusual Google resulted from DM only. Maybe that cask is meant exclusively for DM.

 

[Spongbob]

Haven't given STARWARD a honest taste, a small nip at a tasting left no lasting impression, find that
more than that taste test is needed to appreciate some whiskys.

The LARK though, well worth it it you can afford the $$$'s at around $150 / 500ml............not something I can do to often

STARWARD is a "younger" style whisky (aged for only 2-3 years), so it needs some ice or water to reduce much of its bite (strong alcohol).