Classic Twist
Kamiki Highball
The Japanese art of whisky and soda, lifted by Yoshino cedar.
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The Story
The highball is Japan's gift to easy drinking. Whisky and soda found its spiritual home in the postwar decades, when Suntory's standing bars poured the drink for a generation of office workers — crisp, cold, and endlessly refreshing. Decades later the haiboru returned to fashion, built with obsessive care: hard ice, precise ratios, gentle stirring.
Kamiki, the world's first whisky finished in Japanese Yoshino cedar casks, gives the formula a distinctly Japanese accent — sandalwood, green tea, and a temple-incense calm that soda water opens up beautifully.
The Recipe
How to Make It
Ingredients
- 50ml Kamiki Original
- 120ml Chilled soda water
- — Plenty of hard, clear ice
Method
- 01 Fill a tall glass to the top with ice and stir to chill, discarding any melt.
- 02 Pour in the Kamiki and stir once or twice.
- 03 Top slowly with chilled soda down the side of the glass.
- 04 Give one gentle lift with the bar spoon — no more — and serve at once.
