HIBIKI — BRAND
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<p>Hibiki is the House of Suntory's flagship blend — launched in 1989, its name meaning "resonance," and built from more than ten malt and grain whiskies from Yamazaki, Hakushu and Chita. It's as known for its 24-faceted decanter, one facet per micro-season of the Japanese calendar, as for the blending behind it. Layered, floral and precise, with mizunara and even plum-cask whiskies in the mix, Hibiki is Japan's most awarded blend. This page gathers the Hibiki expressions in the vault, from Japanese Harmony to the aged 17, 21 and 30.</p>
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<span class="mw-h3">The Blend</span>
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<li>The House of Suntory's <strong>flagship blended whisky</strong> — launched <strong>1989</strong> for Suntory's 90th anniversary.</li>
<li><strong>"Hibiki" means resonance</strong>, or harmony.</li>
<li>A blend of <strong>10+ malt and grain whiskies</strong> from Yamazaki, Hakushu and Chita.</li>
<li>Matured across <strong>five cask types</strong>, including American oak, sherry, mizunara and plum-liqueur (umeshu) casks.</li>
<li>The <strong>24-faceted decanter</strong> stands for the 24 micro-seasons of the old Japanese calendar; the neck wears Kokimurasaki purple, once reserved for nobility; the label is washi paper.</li>
<li><strong>Hibiki 21</strong> has been named World's Best Blended Whisky at the World Whiskies Awards (2010, 2011, 2013, 2016).</li>
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<span class="mw-accent" style="font-size:0.75rem; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:1px;">The Founder's Vision</span>
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<p>Shinjiro Torii set out to make a whisky for the Japanese palate rather than a copy of Scotch. In 1923 he built the Yamazaki Distillery at the foot of Mt. Tenno near Kyoto, where three rivers meet and a misty climate and soft water suit slow maturation — a site so prized that a 16th-century tea master had built his teahouse there. Torii's first whisky struggled, but he kept refining, and Yamazaki became the foundation of an entire national category.</p>
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<span class="mw-accent" style="font-size:0.75rem; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:1px;">The Art of Blending</span>
<p style="font-size:0.90rem; margin-top:15px;">Suntory's craft has stayed in one lineage: founder Shinjiro Torii, his son Keizo Saji, and grandson Shingo Torii, with chief blender Shinji Fukuyo carrying the work forward. They draw on three distilleries — the malt distilleries Yamazaki and Hakushu and the Chita grain distillery — and a wide range of cask types, including the Japanese Mizunara oak that gives Suntory whisky its signature sandalwood and incense notes. That blending tradition is what Hibiki was created to showcase.</p>
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<summary>The Expressions</summary>
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<p style="font-size:0.9rem; margin-bottom:6px; margin-top:0;">The Hibiki range in the vault — we link each expression as it reaches the vault:</p>
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<tr><td><a href="[PASTE_HIBIKI_HARMONY_URL]" class="mw-accent">Hibiki Japanese Harmony</a></td><td>No age statement; the core of the range (2015)</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="[PASTE_HIBIKI_12_URL]" class="mw-accent">Hibiki 12 Year</a></td><td>Discontinued; the former entry release</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="[PASTE_HIBIKI_17_URL]" class="mw-accent">Hibiki 17 Year</a></td><td>The <em>Lost in Translation</em> bottle (discontinued)</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="[PASTE_HIBIKI_21_URL]" class="mw-accent">Hibiki 21 Year</a></td><td>Multiple World's Best Blended Whisky titles</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="[PASTE_HIBIKI_30_URL]" class="mw-accent">Hibiki 30 Year</a></td><td>The gold-leaf label; deeply aged</td></tr>
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<tr><td><a href="[PASTE_HIBIKI_KACHOFUGETSU_URL]" class="mw-accent">Hibiki "Kacho Fugetsu"</a></td><td>Hand-decorated floral release</td></tr>
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<p style="margin-top:18px; font-size:0.9rem; margin-bottom:0;">Hibiki sits within the wider <a href="/collections/japanese-whisky" class="mw-accent">Japanese whisky</a> collection, alongside its Suntory stablemates Yamazaki and Hakushu. For the wider category of blends it belongs to, see <a href="/collections/scotch" class="mw-accent">Scotch whisky</a>, or browse <a href="/collections/best-sellers" class="mw-accent">our best sellers</a>.</p>
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<summary>Collector Note</summary>
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<p style="margin:0;">Hibiki is among the most collected blends in the world. After Suntory paused the 17 in 2018 and global demand outran supply, the aged statements — 17, 21 and 30, plus the discontinued 12 — climbed steeply and became hard to find, and the gold-leaf 30 and the hand-decorated Kacho Fugetsu editions trade well above issue. Because the faceted decanter is so recognisable, authenticity matters: age, edition, fill level, the box and overall condition all shape what a bottle is worth.</p>
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<summary>How Hibiki Is Blended</summary>
<div class="details-content"><p style="margin:0;">Hibiki starts with components from three Suntory distilleries: malt from Yamazaki and Hakushu, and grain whisky from Chita. More than ten of these are selected and married in careful proportion, then drawn from a wide range of casks — American oak, Spanish sherry, Japanese mizunara, and barrels that once aged Suntory's own plum liqueur. Each cask plays a part: mizunara for incense and sandalwood, the plum casks for soft floral fruit. The blender's work is to balance them so no single element dominates — the resonance the name describes — which is why Hibiki reads as layered and seamless rather than as any one whisky.</p></div>
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<summary>Authentication & Vault Preservation</summary>
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<p style="margin:0;">Every Hibiki bottle sold through Midnight Whiskey is sourced as an authorized, authentic retailer, vault-stored and insured, shipped with protective handling and age-verified 21-and-over signature on delivery, and authenticated by our concierge before it ships. For the details, see <a href="/pages/about-the-vault" class="mw-accent">the checks behind every bottle</a>, <a href="/pages/the-vault-concierge" class="mw-accent">the vault and our concierge service</a>, and <a href="/pages/faq" class="mw-accent">how we source and ship</a>.</p>
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<summary>Frequently Asked Questions</summary>
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<p style="margin-top:0;"><strong>What is Hibiki whisky?</strong><br>Hibiki is the House of Suntory's flagship blended Japanese whisky, launched in 1989 for Suntory's 90th anniversary. The name means "resonance," and the blend draws on more than ten malt and grain whiskies from Suntory's Yamazaki, Hakushu and Chita distilleries, married across several cask types — including Japanese mizunara and casks that once held plum liqueur. It's bottled in the distinctive 24-faceted decanter, whose facets stand for the 24 micro-seasons of the old Japanese calendar.</p>
<p style="margin-top:14px; margin-bottom:0;"><strong>What are the different Hibiki expressions?</strong><br>The core of the range today is Hibiki Japanese Harmony, a no-age-statement blend introduced in 2015 that became the entry point after the 12 Year was discontinued. Above it sit the aged releases — the 17, 21 and 30 Year — which have grown scarce as demand outran supply. The Hibiki 21 has been named World's Best Blended Whisky at the World Whiskies Awards more than once. Suntory also issues limited "Kacho Fugetsu" editions in hand-decorated bottles. Specific ages and bottlings vary, so check each product page.</p>
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