Hibiki 12

I've been reacquainting myself with my whisky shelf recently after a few years of hyper focusing on wine and not really touching the amber stuff. I've been a whisky drinker for a long time and was briefly the whisky buyer for a bar in south Manchester a lifetime ago, but I don't actually know all that much about the stuff beyond knowing what I tend to like. When I was getting into wine I found that writing reviews for myself was a very good way of learning more about it and enjoying what I was drinking a little bit more intentionally, so I'm hoping to get something similar out of writing about whisky. We'll see how it goes. Hibiki 12 was one of the first whiskies I really fell in love with, and this specific bottle was bought for my by my mum for my 30th birthday. Shortly afterwards I quit drinking for a few years and so didn't touch it, and then it was discontinued and became incredibly expensive. The result is that I've been rationing it for a long time, because I know that once…