Takamine is a new whiskey made with koji ... Dr. Takamine, who was born into a samurai family in Japan in 1854 and moved to the United States at the urging of his American wife, was far from ...

I cover beer and food. In 2014, Japan surprised the world when connoisseur Jim Murray made his pick for “World Whiskey of the Year.” Rather than something Scottish, or Irish, Murray gave a nod ...

The worlds of Japanese whiskey and American whiskey have been intertwined to some degree for a while—arguably since Suntory purchased Jim Beam and became Beam Suntory, gaining control of both ...

“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others.” – Raymond Chandler Few things are as Scottish as whiskey. But a leading whiskey critic may have just ...

two types of whiskey made by Japan’s Suntory had shot up in price. A bottle of Hibiki that once sold for around $90 was selling for more than $130, while the higher-end Yamazaki that ...