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Hibiki 17 years Of. Suntory

  • 43% |
  • 0.70L

A Japanese blend from the Suntory group, featuring malt and grain whiskies produced at the group’’s distilleries, aged for at least 17 years in oak casks. …More info

  • Distillery: Suntory
  • Appellation: Blended Whisky
  • Country/Region: Japan , Honshu
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 mid-shoulder
  • State: 1 stained label

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Hibiki 17 years Of. Suntory

The wine

A Japanese blend from the Suntory group, featuring malt and grain whiskies produced at the group’’s distilleries, aged for at least 17 years in oak casks. Bottle equipped with a cork stopper and transparent foil seal.

The distillery Suntory

Suntory was founded by Shinjirō Torii, who, after learning about foreign alcohols during an apprenticeship with a pharmacist, decided to open a wine cellar named Torii Shoten in 1899. He first experienced success as a wine merchant with his flagship product Akadama Port Wine, launched in 1907. His business took the name Kotobukiya in 1921, two years before the construction of Japan’s first distillery, Yamazaki (1923), halfway between Kyoto and Osaka. Japan’s first real whisky was released in 1929 under the name Shirofuda (“white label”), followed in 1937 by the famous Kakubin. The group’s name was changed to Suntory in 1963. In the 1970s, under the direction of Shinjirō Torii’s son Keizo Saiji, two new distilleries were built, the Chita grain distillery in 1972 and Hakushu in 1973, 50 years after Yamazaki was first founded. In 1984, the first widely available Japanese single malt was released, Yamazaki 12 Year Old. 1989 saw the launch of another iconic whisky, the blend Hibiki. After buying Morrison Bowmore in 1994 and Beam in 2014, Suntory (now Beam Suntory) became one of the world’s largest whisky groups, with distilleries in Japan, America and Scotland, including Glen Garioch, Laphroaig and Bowmore.

Detailed characteristics

  • Distillery: Suntory
  • Bottler: Of.
  • Age: 17 years
  • Appellation: Blended Whisky
  • Country/Region: Japan , Honshu
  • Alcohol percentage: 43 %
  • Volume: 0.70L
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 mid-shoulder
  • State: 1 stained label
  • Case: No
  • Origin: Private individual
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Color: Brown
  • Intensity: -
  • Dominant aroma: -
  • Tasting occasion: -
Hibiki 17 years Of. Suntory
Hibiki 17 years Of. Suntory

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Hibiki 17 years Of. Suntory

iDealwine Price(1) corresponds to the hammer price and the buyer's premium charged by the auctioneer. (1)Bottle format