Description
A limited-edition Yoichi single malt, released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Miyagikyo Distillery, made with a combination of casks from across these five decades.
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Nose on light peat. Smoke. Banana peel, pepper, fresh mint. Green oilve, martini. Very beautiful intensity and complexity.
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On the palate it’s sweeter on lemon candy. Caramel, sweet crystallized. Citrus. Lemon, always this light banana skin. Pepper and light ginger. Mint
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Finale on mint, lemon, cold ashes and smoke.
Japan, Japanese Whisky, Nikka, Perfect Gifts, Promotions, Spirits over $500, Whisky
Nikka celebrates the 50th anniversary of its second distillery, Miyagikyo, with the introduction of the 2019 limited editions Yoichi Single Malt and Miyagikyo Single Malt 2019 on March 12. Both whiskies are a blend of vintages from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
Masataka Taketsuru, the son of a sake brewing family, is hired by the Settsu Shuzo Company in 1918 to create the first true Japanese whisky.
With a chemical background, the young man decides to travel to Scotland in order to learn the secrets of whisky manufacturing. Taketsuru meets Rita Cowan a few months after his arrival and falls in love with her right away. Rita becomes both his wife and his inspiration.
The pair returns to Japan two years later. Following a stock market meltdown in 1922, his employer, Settsu Shuzo, declares bankruptcy.
Taketsuru then joins the Kotobukiya group, a beer business behemoth that would eventually be become Suntory. In 1934, however, he established his own distillery, Dai Nippon Kaju K.K., in Yoichi, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. He thought this section of Japan was the most like Scotland. He later changed the company’s name to Nikka.
