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55-YEAR OLD YAMAZAKI WHISKY TASTING

The past couple of months have been exhilarating for  really old whiskys .  Macallan announced their 71-year old and  Glenlivet an 80-year old  ( right ).  Now comes a Yamazaki 55-year old, a bottle which was found and auctioned for $795,000.  So Suntory decided to create a new 55-year old by blending three spirits from the 1960's. Gold today costs $1807/ounce.  That Yamazaki was worth $31,000 per ounce.  This is getting absurd, but a  5-carat diamond, which weighs one gram, costs between $36,000 and $395,000 .  This calculates into a range of $1272 to $14000/ounce.  So one ounce of that Yamazaki was more than double the cost of an equal weight of that more expensive diamond. If you have nothing to do tonight, why not taste that new composite?  Watch a  Hawaii News Now video  on where and how to do this in Honolulu.   Bar Maze  can be found in The Collection, a Kakaako condo across the street from SALT, and will provide the ultimate converse to Guy Hagi's cheap eats.   For only