WHISKY HOUR: HAKUSHU 18 & BVLGARI OCTO FINISSIMO
DISTINCTIVE PROFILE
akushu hails from Suntory’s Hakushu Distillery (pronounced hack-shoo, meaning “white sand bar”). It stands 2,300 feet above sea level – more than twice the altitude of Scotland’s highest distillery – in the shadow of the pale granite pyramid of Mount Kaikomagatake (9,744 feet) in the Japanese Alps. Hakushu was once the largest distillery in the world, with two huge still
