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post Jul 29 2025, 02:27 PM

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QUOTE(bengang15 @ Jul 29 2025, 02:00 PM)
No tasting. Just buy any suntory.
Yamazaki 18 -sgd 980
Hibiki 21-sgd 800

Already have yamazaki 18.

Plan to get hakushu 18 and hibiki 21 to my collection soon
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have you tasted it before?
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post Jul 29 2025, 02:37 PM

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QUOTE(bengang15 @ Jul 29 2025, 02:28 PM)
Nope. Lol
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hahah, then really dunno you buy for apa and at wat reasoning for your kid wedding

I like my whiskies, those that I wanna keep, normally I will buy 2 bottles, one for drinking , another for keeping

these 18 yama or 21 hibiki I dont think its like an investment pc such as those karuizawa or chichibu

but prices now for jap whisky is really overrated , we used to be drinking these for sub 300 sgd
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post Jul 29 2025, 03:00 PM

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QUOTE(bengang15 @ Jul 29 2025, 02:44 PM)
Yeah. I think it's an indulgence. Like buying un open pokemon cards.

I guess I will just buy and keep so long as I am working.

I drink mostly high ball. Whisky + soda water. So those 18year or 21 years whisky will be wasted on me for now.

Hopefully as I grow older I will learn to appreciate it like you.
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damn, u made me feel damn old

for ur replies , it seems you are based in sg, or ur purchases are made mainly from duty free

I believe the age statement suntorys are not available at Changi, if in Japan , then you are very lucky

I personally buy some wine that can be aged for 20 years or more with the year of my child's birth year
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post Jul 29 2025, 03:03 PM

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QUOTE(miuk @ Jul 29 2025, 02:59 PM)
my 2 cents based on observations of my dads collection and my own.

Temperature in msia is the biggest killer, our so called from room temp is more like 28-29C indoors, pretty bad for wine and for liquor it accelerates the off gas of the volatile components, older liquor kept like 10 years all lose their 'hiongness' when you finally open it.
Then comes evaporation, over time even sealed, the bottle just slowly evaps out and you can see it slowly getting lower. My dad has bottles from the 80s and some of them are like a quarter gone. Some shops i see try to mitigate this by shrink wrapping the bottles.
I try to keep my own bottles at 22-24C to try and mitigate these.

On the topic of Japanese whisky, pretty much my hobby. Managed to stockpile a whole bunch of Yama/Hibi/Haku. The way i look at it, like LVMH, Suntory won't be reducing the msrp prices, so no point looking back at 2015 prices. Right now i've stopped buying at current MSRP as i think the market has stabilized and i dont think Suntory will be raising them anymore. Pretty much all my stuff is bought at MSRP except for the Hibiki 12s and 17s which i bought via auction. Have a full set of the Y18, H18 and Hibi21. Passed on the Y25 and Hibi30, too rich for my wallet.
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but from my experience, mainly the brandys evaporate faster/more than whiskies
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post Jul 29 2025, 03:36 PM

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QUOTE(bengang15 @ Jul 29 2025, 03:18 PM)
Based in Singapore. I realise changi can easily get suntory but not at klia.
I was at Japan last Dec I find their liquor are more expensive hence did not buy.

Now changi  started selling yama and hakushu 18. Bought yam18 already ,plan to get hakushu from casousell. Seems like cheaper.

After that will stop I guess...lol.
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just get from carousel

Changi duty free not cheap, unless got certain promo

sometimes I get my supply from Cold Storage with promo, even cheaper than duty free Changi

 

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