Nikka Taketsuru Blended Malt Whisky 43% 70cl

Description

Nikka Taketsuru Blended Malt Whisky is a non age statement Japanese whisky and replaces their very popular Taketsuru 12 Year Old. It has an average age of about 10 years old. In 1918 Masataka Taketsuru, the founder of Nikka Whisky, embarked on a long voyage to Scotland and, after enrolling at Glasgow University, became the first Japanese person ever to study whisky making. He took chemistry courses at the university and apprenticed at distilleries, learning first-hand from craftsmen and received training as a blender. Masataka would later become known as a master blender. After returning to Japan in 1920 Masataka began work for a company who would produce Japan’s first whisky. In 1934, Masataka struck out on his own and established Nikka Whisky and built its first distillery in Yoichi, Hokkaido, which he had always considered to be the ideal site in Japan for whisky-making. This was later joined, in 1969, by the Miyagikyo Distillery, also in northern Japan. Nikka Taketsuru Blended Malt Whisky is a blend of the two Nikka single malts, Taketsuru combines the strong character of Yoichi with the elegance and precision of Miyagikyo. Both masculine and feminine, traditional and innovative, this outstanding pure malt whisky is a worthy tribute to Masataka Taketsuru, the father of Japanese whisky and founder of Nikka. Nikka Taketsuru Blended Malt Whisky was first released in 2014 and is a blend of malts aged 10 years on average in different types of oak casks.