The world of luxury Japanese whisky just got a little bigger today with the announcement of the new Hibiki 40, a $35,000 blend aged for four decades from esteemed producer House of Suntory. We were lucky enough to get a taste of this rarified new whisky, and spoke to chief blender Shinji Fukoyo to get the inside scoop about how it all came together.
Suntory owns three distilleries in Japan: Yamazaki, Hakushu, and Chita. The first two produce single malt, and their age…

