Suntory’s Forgotten First Foray into Vodka: Mild Vodka

Aaron Gilbreath
4 min readJan 20, 2020

The Japanese corporate giant has tried it all since they started selling alcoholic beverages in 1899.

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Before Suntory launched its new “craft” vodka brand, Haku Vodka, in 2018, Suntory sold Mild Vodka in the early 1980s.

Suntory is most widely known for its award-winning Hibiki and Yamazaki whisky lines, but the beverage giant sells everything…

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Aaron Gilbreath

Essayist, Journalist, Burritoist. Longreads Editor. Writing: Harper’s, NYT, Slate, Paris Review, VQR, Oxford American, Kenyon Review. 3 nonfiction books.