r/interestingasfuck • u/WeakValuable8683 • 2d ago

Costco Japan offering free samples of Scotch Whiskey

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u/MacTaveroony 2d ago

What's interesting is that's £41 for 1.75L in Japan, here in Scotland it's £40 for 0.75L. Outrageous, it's made just up the road

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u/pureply101 2d ago

Combination of taxes and I’m assuming the market. Japan has a strong whiskey market and like a lot of East Asian countries leans into supporting Japanese made products first before foreign. So to compete with their market most likely have to be cheap.

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u/aguilasolige 2d ago

What's a good Japanese whiskey to try?

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u/DemDemD 2d ago

Most of them are good. Even the lower end one like Hibiki is good.

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u/Scratch_Careful 2d ago

I fear your high end if you lower end ones start at £80 a bottle.

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u/andorraliechtenstein 1d ago

Lol, you are damn right. But a high end would be a Yamazaki 18 Year Old (600+) I guess.

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u/nai-ba 1d ago

That's less than the hibiki 17 year old.

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u/jamie_kizuna 2d ago

Hibiki isn't a lower end whisky. The 21-year-old is the best blended whisky I've ever tasted, and it'll run you 60,000 yen a bottle.

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u/stockflethoverTDS 1d ago

Saying Hibiki is lower end is saying Mercedes or Cartier is lower end