HIBIKI HARMONY SPECS SERIES
HIBIKI HARMONY SPECS MAC

This duty is performed once in the summertime, called ochugen and once at the end of the year, called oseibo. Japanese custom calls for the giving of gifts twice a year to someone who is taking care of you. It’s intended for the gift-giving season of Ochugen. The label is also beautiful, emblematic of Suntory’s attention to detail when it comes to product design. The box is decorated with ‘100 flowers suitable for celebration’.

Hibiki Blossom Harmony 2021īlossom Harmony is sold in 700 ml classic Hibiki-shaped bottles at 43% ABV. 100th Anniversary Limited Edition Design. This literally means flower viewing, which sounds very sophisticated, but, well, is actually a two-week piss up. Hibiki Japanese Harmony Anniversary Edition. The beautiful box of Hibiki Blossom Harmony 2021Ĭherry blossoms are the most revered of all the blooms in Japan, and the excuse for the two-week party called ‘Hanami’. Akashi AKA The White Oak Distillery has gone all-in on cask diversification, for example, Tequila, Cognac, Mizunara, Bourbon, Red Wine, Oloroso … even Japanese Sake cask editions. So we have the freedom to mess around here. One of the things I liked about the new Japanese whisky standards is that they didn’t impose any specification on cask types. Hibiki Blossom Harmony 2021 featured a blend of standard Hibiki with sakura cask finished whiskies.

HIBIKI HARMONY SPECS SERIES

Prior to this, Hibiki hasn’t seen yearly limited-edition releases, but the series has seen a number of variants outside of its age-statement releases, such as Deep Harmony, Mellow Harmony, Master Select for the airport market and Blender’s Choice. Hibiki 21 is a 6-time winner of World’s Best Blended Whisky at the World Whisky Awards. Hibiki is Suntory’s premium blend brand, released in 1989 to commemorate the 90th anniversary of their founding. Yōkoso! Hibiki Blossom Harmony 2021 A bit of Hibiki history

HIBIKI HARMONY SPECS MAC

Our focus here is the Hibiki Blossom Harmony.Ĭoldorak’s Note: today we welcome a guest author, Mac aka Kanpai Planet, who does Youtube reviews of Japanese whiskies and other Japanese drinks on his Youtube channel. They both had RRPs of ¥8800 (after tax, around €67 or $80), but now grace auction sites for 10x that. There are allegedly 30,000 of each of these kicking around. They were both released on May 25 and sold out almost immediately everywhere.

Suntory’s first big announcement of 2021, back in January, was of two limited-edition variants on their two biggest brands: Yamazaki Limited Edition 2021 and Hibiki Blossom Harmony 2021.

Hibiki harmony specs