Oct 18, 2019, 5:22 pm
Last edit by: armagebedar
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Consolidated "Buy Whiskey in Japan" thread (was: Haneda/Narita Duty Free Whiskey)
Jul 5, 2019, 4:11 am
#1546
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https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/h...+japan+limited
What am I missing? Yes I've seen lower prices but they're invariably out of stock.
Jul 5, 2019, 4:17 am
#1547
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My source:
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/h...+japan+limited
What am I missing? Yes I've seen lower prices but they're invariably out of stock.
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/h...+japan+limited
What am I missing? Yes I've seen lower prices but they're invariably out of stock.
Jul 5, 2019, 4:20 am
#1548
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Either way this discussion is stupid. JPY 50K is a great deal in both of our books.
Jul 5, 2019, 7:13 am
#1550
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I'm aware of some private / members only whisky forums where people buy/sell/trade at less than secondary prices. But to your point, not readily available to the average joe. 50K JPY is a great price and you should be over the moon to have scored two. Hopefully you'll open one of them too!
Jul 6, 2019, 5:57 am
#1551
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I'm aware of some private / members only whisky forums where people buy/sell/trade at less than secondary prices. But to your point, not readily available to the average joe. 50K JPY is a great price and you should be over the moon to have scored two. Hopefully you'll open one of them too!
Jul 6, 2019, 6:10 am
#1552
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Where is this? EU, US ...
Jul 6, 2019, 6:12 am
#1553
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What sad times these are, where someone will go through the hassle of buying Hakushu 18LE only to sell it for a measly $25 profit!
Jul 6, 2019, 7:21 am
#1554
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If even $25 profit! These prices include domestic shipping!! I suspect that a lot of flippers are hoarders at first and now those particular markets are cooling off. Surprisingly Hakushu 18 is the hardest one to find among LEs!
Jul 7, 2019, 12:31 am
#1555
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NRT DF store by gate 61 has Hibiki 21 Limited edition for JPY 50K. Limited to one / customer. Bought two between my wife and I. Just got them this morning - they were not allowed to say how many bottles but I got the impression that it wasn't a whole lot (surprise). Great deal since these go for $1 - 1.5K per bottle. I was surprised how dry Japan has become for Japanese top shelf whiskey. Earlier I found three bottles of Yamazaki 12 at a Piccolo for JPY 16K one night, blinked, went back next day to buy, all three were gone.
Last spring there was still a half decent selection at upscale dept stores with Nikka 12 etc, now nothing except very average drams. Things surely have changed. Apparently the chinese now use top shelf Japanese whiskey as a status symbol.
Last spring there was still a half decent selection at upscale dept stores with Nikka 12 etc, now nothing except very average drams. Things surely have changed. Apparently the chinese now use top shelf Japanese whiskey as a status symbol.
Jul 7, 2019, 2:53 am
#1559
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Jul 7, 2019, 6:09 am
#1560
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There were still plenty of Nikka 12 at DF store just couple weeks ago at MSRP. My previous post show couple pictures I took at Haneda. And yes it is getting harder to find in the city but I believe DF stores at airports still have them in stock!!