I have recently been reporting on Japanese whiskies, and how expensive they are:
I noticed that Dekanta (a company that sells these drinks at rather high prices) is publicizing their Japanese Whisky Advent Calendar 2019 Edition:
Our amazing Japanese Whisky Advent Calendar was so popular that we made it even better this year! Of course, it’s jam-packed with excellent single malts, grains and blends from some of Japan’s top producers. Explore 24 different drams from all across Japan. A range of superb single grain to single malt whiskies hailing from the most famous distilleries. Now is your chance to taste some of the finest whisky on the planet.
Here are the different whiskies you get:
- Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt ($194)
- Kamiki Sakura ($199)
- Yamazaki 18 Year Old ($100)
- Kunpu 2017 ($210)
- Suntory Royal Aged 12 year Old ($250)
- Nikka Black Deep Blend Extra Sweet ($150)
- Suntory Hakushu Distillery Single Malt Whisky (that's my bottle to the right)
- Mars HHAE Blended Whisky By Minaminokaze
- Nikka Coffey Malt Whisky
- Kirin Fujisanroku Signature Blend Non-Chill Filtered
- Komagatake Single Malt Japanese Whisky Shinanotanpopo
- Hibiki Blender’s Choice
- The Yamazaki Single Malt Whisky – Distiller’s Reserve
- Single Malt Miyagikyo
- Nikka Yoichi Single Malt (only $130, but here is a photo of my 20-year old version, which costs $5500 at Dekanta, and was the Japanese whiskey that in 2001 broke the ice to be selected as Best of the Best whisky in Scotland)
- Akashi White Oak Aged 5 Bourbon Barrel (1st Fill)
- Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky
- Yamazakura 16 Year Old
- Shinshu Mars Karuizawa Club
- Ichiro’s Malt And Grain Chichibu Blended Whisky ($130)
- Kamiki Intense
- Nikka Days
- Yamazakura Blended Whisky
- Suntory Ao: This is the newest Suntory, which Dekanta has on sale for $200. As Japanese distilleries are so small, the cost of their whiskies have skyrocketed. So Suntory is using whisky from distilleries around the world they have purchased to blend with a small amount from Japan.
You ask, how much is a dram?
- one dram is one-eighth of an ounce
- there are 25.4 ounces (oz) in a standard whisky bottle
- thus, there are 406.4 drams in a bottle
- if a bottle of whisky costs $100, one dram is worth 25 cents
- if a bottle of whisky costs $1000, one dram is worth $2.50
- one shot is 1.5 oz
- one shot is 610 grams
- 24 drams amount to 3 ounces
- that smallest bottle to the right next to the dime is a dram bottle, while the 68 mm bottle is half an ounce:
As these 24 miniature one dram bottles cost $300, your break-even cost is for the average price of these liquors to be $2540 / 25.4 oz bottle. I checked into the first few and they average slightly more than $150/bottle. The rest of the list does not include any really expensive whisky, as for example, the Ichiro Malt and Grain Chichibu Blended Whiskey costs $130. However, the Ichiro Malt and Grain Japanese Blended Whisky Limited Edition 2019 sells for $7500, but that's not the one you're getting.
Oh, if you were wondering what is an ANORAK, it is British slang for a person who is obsessive about a niche subject. Deep in the field of whisky imbibition is this term, referring to a whisky-phile.
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