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Nikka’s 70th Anniversary
Nikka has come a long way since it was founded by Masataka Taketsuru, the ‘Father of Japanese Whisky’. Today, it is an empire, and its products frequently win awards at international whisky competitions. The Nikka 70th Anniversary is a commemorative set for the Nikka Yoichi distillery.
This set includes four wonderfully engraved bottles of cask strength Japanese whisky: the Yoichi 12 Year Old, Miyagikyo 12 Year Old, 12 Year Old Single Coffey Grain, and a perfect blend of all three. A stunning set, indeed.
Nikka 70th Anniversary Selection Box Set 4 x 70cl
An incredible set of four cask strength engraved bottles from Nikka to celebrate the companies 70th anniversary in 2004.
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Nice sweet sherry honey, otherwise funky mix, smoke and some tropics, incense extinguished and star fruit and dragon fruit, papaya, nougat, later some banana, some marzipan and nice malt
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Star fruit, nice crisp malt, papaya, peach, toffee, some toasted oak, nutmeg, cinnamon, fennel, grapefruit peel, licorice, roasted cinnamon
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Almost Sherry Laphroaig, resin, cold, simmered oak, grapefruit, medium length, nutmeg, some clove and fennel tea
Nikka was founded in 1934 by Masataka Taketsuru, a former Suntory employee who had studied at the University of Glasgow, and later trained as a blender at the now lost Hazelburn distillery in Campbeltown.
Taketsuru opened the Yoichi distillery in the same year as establishing the company, followed by the Nishinomaya and Miyagikyo distilleries in 1959 and 1969, respectively.
Since 1989 the company has also has also had a stake in the Scotch whisky industry after they purchased the struggling Ben Nevis distillery. Today they are one of the second largest whisky producer in Japan.
Contains one bottle each-
Nikka 12 Year Old Single Coffey Grain 58% 70cl
Yoichi 12 Year Old Single Malt 58% 70cl
Miyagiko 12 Year Old Single Malt 58% 70cl
Nikka 12 Year Old Master Blender Blended Whisky 58% 70cl
