Suntory Kakubin Blended Japanese Whisky $39.99 @ Aldi
$46.99 @ Dan Murphy's
$49.00 @ First Choice
Suntory Kakubin Blended Japanese Whisky 700ml $39.99 @ ALDI Instore
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Japanese version of Chivas? Japanese version of Johnny Blue?
I knowwwww, I wantedddd. However I am in QLD, visited my local and was told that they don't liquor in this state.
anyone know Dan Murphy will price match if ALDI don't do liquor in that state?
Yes. DM will match the price. They also beat by $1 so you can get it for $38.99. I just bought one from DM yesterday.
What do we show them? Can't find the catalogue
wooqiong - you're not in Qld, where supermarkets can't sell alcohol.
So answer to question is likely no - as no local stock at this price to match.
Any confirmed QLD price matches?
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We reserve the right to limit sales to retail quantities.not sure where you got your info but according to this they wont match out of state
For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.
more intensity
FOR A RELAXING TIME, MAKE IT SUNTORY TIME.
Pit your hand close your face.
Love lost in translation.
risky click
Put your hand, close your face. Close your face
Much better than Johnnie black or Chivas in my opinion.
Anyone know if we can price match @ First Choice and use the $10 off voucher if buying two. Making it 2 for $70?
these are about $12 in Japanese supermarkets. hhhmmmmm
Japanese supermarket in Australia or in Japan
Japan
But spirits are cheaper in general in Japan
Yoshinoya has never been as good as before its HFM Disease debacle back in 2001/2002. Sukiya is where it's at now!
mmmm low taxes - I'll wait for next trip.
definitely. on my last trip in July I bought back 2 700ml bottles of cheapo japanese whisky -700yen each/~AU$10 each. both were very good in regards to taste and smoothness.
especially considering how much you pay for "cheap" whisky is in Australia and more importantly, considering how crap the quality of that "cheap" whisky is.
Those "cheap" low quality whisky - wash your mouth out for even contemplating the stuff😯
Plenty of quality at a reasonable price in Japan. This will do for now.
My favorite find was a 4l bottle of Suntory Black whisky for ~$33AUD - 2580 yen.
Good value drinking there!@dlf73:
"cheap"……that is OzBargain!😀
But with whisky - you are right, it should be Haram / forbidden for anyone who enjoys whisky!But, I'm not that type of Infidel.
It's a generic term used in different cultures & religions for basically not one of us, the outsider, or defined as a person who has no religion or whose religion is not that of the majority.There are more Infidels than most people think😯
I thoroughly enjoy an occasional whisky (and Japan). So why waste the experience on "cheap" when "good value" is available.
True. But any Jap alcohol is at least 3-4 times more expensive here than there, thanks for GST and alcohol duty.
i.e a 250 yen local beer in Jap Super market is $6-7 in DM here.
a 2000 Yen mid range Sake is $70 here
I see this a fair price and will get 2 for highball.
All due to taxes. Spirits are taxes at $62.64/l of alcohol. the 300ml of alcohol in the whisky adds $18.84 + $1.88 GST = $20.72 in excise taxes. Leaves $20 for import, production, Suntory + Aldi's profit margins.
It costs $800 to fly there though.
It's pointless to use price comparison when there are other costs to consider
Plenty of cheap Japan deals on OzBargain😯
So many booked flights in recent AirAsia & from $269 return Jetstar deals - so a few will be interested. I am.Flew over for March-April at $249 return (Cairns) in a Jetstar deal. Flying again in April for $349 return from Gold Coast.
Accommodation at a basic Inn for the month and return flights cost less than $800!
If can save around $80 a bottle on good whisky, you can enjoy a good drink, bring some home & the savings pay for the flights. I like to combine my favourite pleasures.
You're going to spend $100 a night on accomondation and then you are taxed on over 2L of it. There are no savings to be had
@Cyphar:
No. Debunked both of your incorrect comments. Seems you won't read my actual experience in Japan. I spend little but have a fantastic time😀You're going to spend $100 a night on accomondation
No. I spent under $800 total on return flight with 1 month of very basic single hotel room ($13/n!) during popular Sakura season this year, as I posted above. The English speaking staff remember me & welcome me back. There are amazingly cheap deals.Drink the cheap bulk stuff there & bring back 2 x 1L bottles of quality whiskey without our tax as I suggested in link - maybe saving in total the cost of flights, over what would cost here.
As I said, many have bought their trip already with the great airfares (Jetstar deal 2 weeks ago got 9580 clicks), so not an added expense for them to score some of the bargains listed here.
After all its a Japanese alcohol deal, so price comparison is valid. If you like this whisky, its a very common drop in Japan & worth the trip to try other whisky there. Whisky from other countries is also very cheap compared to our prices.
I'm looking forward to another month of savings in Japan, next April😯
You haven't debunked a single thing.
You got a single hotel room for $13 a night? In peak season? I'd love for you to provide a link for other fellow OzBargainers here. Even popular hostels like K's House or J-Hoppers don't offer a bunk at that price in off-peak summer time.
I don't discount the cost of flying to Japan. I fly there so often for business that I appreciate the costs others must spend to get there, but again, you will not save any money by flying to Japan to buy whiskey. This isn't Adobe Creative Suite. Once you factor even even a $400 flight, $200 for hostel accomondation for a week, another $80 if you are eating purely Onigiri & combini meals, there still aren't savings to be had given our strict duty laws. What you do there, and keep there is irrelevant, and not the discussion at hand (Though you seem to think it is)
You're not going to save hundreds of dollars by bringing some whiskey back. Ofcourse, if you'd love to prove otherwise, NOT using anecdotal claims, then I'm all ears.
@Cyphar:
I've posted most of these details before in my many comments on cheap travel in Japan. Hostels (I used to stay at K's House - especially my week at their 100 year old Traditional Ryokan at Ito Onsen & appeared in their promotional video, or J-Hoppers) are way too expensive & lack privacy compared to cheap business hotels (my usual is still available at 33000JPY / month, but exchange rates are worse than in March 2016). But this isn't a travel deal to discuss that, and you've simply ignored information I've already posted here.I was responding to your claims it would cost $800 return & I would have to pay $100/n which were simply inflated, but if you don't know the deals & discussions here you may pay that. There are much cheaper prices. I usually pay less than half those prices for fares, only once paying $600 return the week before Christmas. Accommodation is rarely no more than a third of your figure. I just posted my experience over many longer trips to Japan over many years & recent deals for airfares which were much lower than your claims.
Just bringing back the 2 x 1L better whisky (no tax on entry to Australia) in the link I gave could have saved $150 off local prices & helped "pay" towards my last $249 return airfare from an OzBargain deal. Dearer drinks mean greater local tax savings on return to Oz. And savings from low tax drinks (mentioned here) while in Japan might "pay" for rest of airfare. No guarantee given of course & varies with individuals ;-) But I'm too cheap to drink that much.
As you are so negative and dismissive, I won't bother with any more comments. No loss if you don't want you see things differently.
Thanks for calling me a liar, later edited.
As you are editing your post rather than a new response, I'll just reply to it again:
But this isn't a travel deal to discuss that, and you've simply ignored information I've already posted here.
But you keep referring it to back up your claim, which you refuse to back up. Given you've made no reference to it in this thread & you have 9000+ posts. I'm not going to go through them all. The onus is on you to back up a claim. Not on me to disprove it
Just bringing back the 2 x 1L better whisky (no tax on entry to Australia) in the link I gave could have saved $150 off local prices & helped "pay" towards my last $249 return airfare from an OzBargain deal.
But you still spent money which you haven't yet recouped, the whole point of this discussion. To save money, you would need to have bought the product in Japan with the savings made still having paid your trip and all expenses and some left over. You so far can't provide it. I'm not negative about the matter, I'm purely skeptical. I have lived in Japan for 18 years and upon coming back, I still spend 1/3 of the year living there working for my business (So I know a thing or two about business hotels given how often I stay at them). I have not come across many savings in alcohol that can recoup costs, moreso now that we are getting 73 yen to the dollar (76 if you deal in FOREX). When the yen was floating at 110 yen a few years ago, maybe. The main issue being Australia's restrictive duty allowances otherwise you'd be bang on correct.
They would be that price here if it weren't for the extravagant taxes on alcohol.
Japan (like Tasmania) is doing some really good whisky, I would be far more likely to get this over a traditional scotch nowadays.
Not a terrible price for Aus, but it's pretty harsh whiskey… Seriously, I saw a 1L bottle on special over there for AU$10.
or the 4 litre plastic flagons for $35
Question for import or wholesale experts
The import duty for whisky is $84 per litre of alcohol so about $23 per bottle.
Plus 5% duty plus 10% gstPlus shipping
Assuming ridiculous economies of scale
How would an aldi or dans sell something for 40 which the taxes are already at almost $30 per bottle?
Doesnt make any sense to me
Whisky is for drinking, for enjoying, not for asking those kinds of questions😯
I know a number of big brands over the years have reduced the alcohol content for Australia.
EG: Jack Daniels is 43% in the US but 40% here, Bombay Sapphire is 43%~ elsewhere but %40 here. I assume there is a threshold they are trying to stay under.
Edit: Reddit has some historical info about the 40% rate for the world which I found interesting. https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3sa23b/e…
I work in liquor retail and iquor margins are quite slim.
It is hard to believe. The wholesale price must be less than $10 per bottle. The average profit margin for Australian supermarkets is around 5%, so they only expect to make $2 per bottle.
As Wikipedia tells us "Aldi is a leading global discount supermarket chain with almost 10,000 stores in 18 countries, and an estimated turnover of more than €50 billion". Aldi's buying power dwarfs that of the Australian supermarkets. If anyone can negotiate a cheap price it is Aldi. Presumably Suntory has excess stock and agreed to a steep discount on a large deal.
I'm not an expert on duty, but I believe it applies to the wholesale price. Under the Australia-Japan trade agreement duty for most goods is zero. I'm not sure if that includes whisky.
I guess that Dan's probably makes a small loss through price matching in this case. The small losses they take in price matching are probably worth it in terms of advertising value and long term customer retention.
im starting to think that there must be a FTA or similar
if the profit margains are $2 per bottle or 10%, then I can agree that its tough market….
when most people pay by credit card as well, this eat into profitseg there is a 2800 retail bottle selling for $70 at dan murphys,
$36 AUD plus $20 excise plus $6 tax gst/duty=10% profit,
however I guess they get a discount off retail,I guess 10% profit over all is possible
if my figures above are correct, I guess volume is what they rely on
Because this stuff retails at about $10-15 in Japan, so I'd imagine wholesale is a lot less.
Where did you get $84/l? The Excise Act lists $62/l for spirits and the customs tariff act lists 5% + $51/l for whiskies (not sure why the discrepancy though).
https://www.border.gov.au/Customsnotices/Documents/australia…
i thought it was $84, but it says $80.41 on this document
regardless its $20-$25 per bottle at 40% alcoholdoes anybody know if there is some kind of FTA for this product?
I asked 3 brokers, 2 x said absolutely not, 1 x said yes there is
Ah fair enough. Maybe the numbers I have are outdated/indexed.
I think even if there were no customs duty applied, it would still be taxed at some point along the chain, so still $20+ whether it's customs or excise.
How about they get some more Yamazaki 12 year in the country instead of this
Mmmmm I brought back some a bottle of Yamazaki when I last went over, cost me around $45aud I think, it sells for $120 in the local bottle shops here. Note - not the 12 year old unfortunately.
Only have about 1 drink left of it :(I wish I could find one locally in Sydney for ~$100 for the 12 year
Yeah nah that'll never happen.
Duty free you can… Christmas time coming back into Sydney they had the subtiry hibiki 12 year for a couple bucks under $100
The savings on a few bottles drunk there & brought back should pay for discount Japan Jetstar flights. That's the theory I work on😯
Love Yamazaki 12 yr. Bought one from Japan last year. It's really hard to find in Sydney.
Good luck with that. I was in Tokyo a couple of months ago and it's increasingly difficult to find 12 year over there nowadays, never mind in teeny tiny Australia. We were lucky enough to find a bottle of 12yr Yamazaki and 17yr Hibiki in a tiny bottleshop in Roppongi Hills, but it couldn't be had at any major supermarkets or stores. You had to go hunting for it.
The exception was that there's plenty of the aged stuff at the airport – the catch being that those were in the annual Limited Edition bottles which have an enormous mark-up and are basically there to fleece tourists and collectors.
We spent a night in a whisky bar talking to the owner, and he told us that they've basically stopped making bottles with numbered years on them because they simply don't have the inventory anymore, so if you find a bottle snap it up.
(We were also able to try the 21yr old Hibiki there and it is amazing, but couldn't find a bottle to bring home unfortunately.)May I ask where the whiskey bar was? Nice to know for any future trips over :-)
Zoetrope in Shibuya. Awesome place. Highly recommended. Small place (maybe 10 seats in all). Heaps of whiskies on offer and the owner is super friendly - happy to make recommendations based on your preferences and a huge sci-fi nerd who will tell you all about his favourite films for hours (so long as you're still buying drinks :)
Easy to spend a few hundred dollars there but worth every cent.
Looking forward to ALDI selling booze in WA
I was talking to the manager at the new Wattle Grove store about this the other day. He told me that they are going to start selling alcohol when they have 19-20 stores operating. They currently have 16 built with 8 open. 3 of the 8 have been given licences to sell booze and they have applied for many of the others to do so too. Some have been knocked back by our nanny state government
I bought some ALDI grog on a trip to the UK last year. Their GBP10 gin is fantastic - on a par with Hendricks IMO and their GBP10 champagne is also good (I believe this sells for $25 on the east coast, which is still great value)
Still $46.99 at DM
https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_878994/suntory-kaku…
Any Idea if/when they price match?
This is a good drop for a cheaper whiskey. In terms of quality, it's right up there with JW Double Black for half the price
Grab this at First Choice and a $1 item to make it up to $50 then use the $10 off $50 voucher that is floating around to make it $40 (including extra item).
Good idea. Pity does not show as available in Brisbane FC stores. DM is unlikely to price match as supermarkets can't sell alcohol in Queensland.
Just did the same and checked the website, N/A. Also went to the new stead FC and no stock a few days ago, was going to do just what argonbay said
Got 2 at Aldi Lidcombe. Still have about 10 left if anyone is interested.
Is this the Toyota of whiskies?
This needs to be mixed with soda. Highball style, a bit plain in neat form
Good buying and good quality all the same, well done Aldi.
Few years ago in japan. Paid around $9.Having 1 drink.. didn't like it. I leave almost full bottle in hotel when i left.
Can confirm at Aldi in Marriott Waters. Purchase made, going to crack it tonight.
And, can confirm that it's actually not a bad drop. For $40, can't see how you can go wrong.
Any more stock left in NSW, or has the deal expired already (the link on Aldi does redirects to a generic page now).
If not, is it still possible to price match with DM?Deal still on.Saw some stock @ Edmonsonpark and Minto.
Check your local Aldi
Have stock in the managers-office at ALDI St.Kida Vic.
I got $50 ..get me to Japan ..git me 1 week accomadation and some nice grub an 2 bootles of this Whisky and when I get to back to my place I will give you the change …Hmmmmm
Blended? Japanese version of Bells?