Japan
Suntory Toki
A light, bright Japanese blend, created by Suntory by combining whiskies from its malt and grain distilleries.
- Fruity
- Floral
- Sweet
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The best Japanese whiskies
Japanese whisky was born looking to Scotland and today has a style of its own: precision, balance and some house signatures, such as Japanese mizunara oak. There are single malts, blends and grain whiskies, and some are hard to find. Each one’s flavour profile helps you know which suits you.
How we make this list
We rank the whiskies by the community’s votes (“Love it”, “Like it” or “Don’t like it”), adjusted for how many each one has: that way, two enthusiastic votes don’t jump ahead of two hundred. There are still few votes, so for now the easiest to find in Spain go first. The order never depends on what we earn.
Suntory’s no-age-statement blend, presented in Hibiki’s elegant 24-faceted bottle.
- Sweet
- Fruity
- Floral
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Nikka Coffey Grain
Nikka distils this grain whisky, mainly from corn, in its old Coffey column stills, a type of still that most distilleries abandoned for more efficient ones.
- Sweet
- Vanilla
- Fruity
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See the whisky and review itA cult Japanese blend, presented in a small square bottle and bottled at 51.4% ABV.
- Spicy
- Sweet
- Vanilla
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See the whisky and review itIt bears the name of Masataka Taketsuru, founder of Nikka and considered the father of Japanese whisky, who learned the trade in Scotland.
- Fruity
- Sweet
- Vanilla
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See the whisky and review itHakushu is Suntory’s distillery in a forest in the Japanese Alps, and its malt has a fresh, green character all of its own.
- Fruity
- Floral
- Sweet
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Nikka Coffey Malt
A Nikka curiosity: a malted barley whisky distilled in a Coffey column still, instead of the traditional copper pot stills used for malts.
- Sweet
- Vanilla
- Fruity
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See the whisky and review itMiyagikyo is Nikka’s second distillery, in a valley in northern Honshu, and its style is the smooth, fruity counterpoint to Yoichi.
- Fruity
- Sweet
- Floral
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See the whisky and review itYoichi, on the island of Hokkaido, was Nikka’s first distillery and still heats its stills directly with coal, something very unusual.
- Smoky
- Spicy
- Fruity
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The Chita
A single-distillery grain whisky from Chita, which Suntory normally uses as the base for blends such as Hibiki.
- Vanilla
- Sweet
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There are 16 more whiskies that meet the criteria. All Japanese whisky (26)
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