Where it’s from: Mars crafts most of its whiskey in the Nagano Alps, making it Japan’s highest-elevation distillery. But they have another distillery along the humid coast in the south. As well, they ...

Japanese whisky has spent years clawing its way to the top of the global spirits conversation, and at this point the argument ...

In my opinion, Japanese whisky is better than Scotch. It’s a bold statement and might sound sacrilegious to some. After all, Scotch whisky has been around for centuries, and the Scottish have ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Until recently, that bottle of Japanese whisky you paid a premium for might not actually contain whisky ...

If you’ve spent any time in a bar in the last few years, you’ve probably spotted at least a few bottles of Japanese whisky. Time was, you’d get obscurity points for even knowing the stuff existed, but ...

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What awaits whisky lovers at Paris CDG? Suntory's new spaces bring rare Japanese pours, tastings and furoshiki flair. Read ...

Shinjiro Torii opened the first Japanese whisky distillery in Yamazaki, an area between Kyoto and Osaka, in 1923. During a time when most Japanese drank only sake, this visionary entrepreneur had ...

Masataka Taketsuru distilled the first Japanese whisky in 1923 for Shinjiro Torii, Suntory's founder, but it took over 65 years to reach the United States, then another quarter century before anyone ...