Suntory Toki is light and subtle, so you can pour up to three shots of whisky without any other flavor being lost. Add Simple Syrup, and drop a cherry in there. Three turns from a bitters bottle are roughly a teaspoon. Introduce the Grenadine, then the bitters. Place them in an empty glass from largest (orange) to smallest (lime). I like to cut the peel off, but that’s up to you. Here are my best taboo cocktails using Suntory:Ĭarve a wheel for each citrus. After all, he took a chance with the taboos of his own era, which have now turned into their own traditions by the forge of time. It may be considered taboo even to contemplate mixing a cocktail with this luxurious spirit, but perhaps Shinjiro Tori would encourage it. Toki, meaning time, harnesses multiple malts, barrels, and ingredients forging them into a distinct blended whisky, losing nothing compared to Suntory’s single malt products. Suntory Toki seeks subtlety and balance, which is immediately apparent from its soft palate and color. Suntory Whisky continues to be passed to new generations. Today, Suntory has proven itself by defending its own traditions against the onslaught of today’s rapidly shifting culture, not only in Japan, but the world over. Suntory, an untested brand, distilled and aged in a nontraditional land with its own unique climate, oak barrels, and ingredients may have seemed taboo to Irish craftsmen during their epoch. During this period, on a far-off island much different from Ireland, Shinjiro Tori began bottling his own novel Japanese whisky. I can imagine that, as the birthplace of whisky, Ireland had many distillers who felt their heritage was being threatened in 1929. As novelty and innovation are tested and aged, like whisky, they evolve into tradition, transcending space and time. While time marches forward along with a rapidly changing world, I wonder if my own children will one day prefer to adopt contemporary glittering novelties, leaving my own struggle to preserve our ancestors’ memories to fade with their weathered tombstones on distant continents. I sometimes view new customs, untested by the destructive rhythm of passing centuries, as a threat to the traditions that have been passed to me from my family. Of the tools against age and decay, tradition is among the most effective. Time is the rival that my efforts endeavor to overcome.
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