Nikka Taketsuru 17 Years 70cl 43%vol. is a blended malt almost extinct distillery Nikka, and is that after winning several times the title of best blended malt in the world, has become the jewel in the crown of the distillery. A whisky with notes of nuts, tobacco leaf, leather and honey, with a palate with spicy cinnamon, licorice and honey.
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Nikka Taketsuru 17 Years 70cl 43%vol. is a blended malt almost extinct distillery Nikka, and is that after winning several times the title of best blended malt in the world, has become the jewel in the crown of the distillery. A whisky with notes of nuts, tobacco leaf, leather and honey, with a palate with spicy cinnamon, licorice and honey.
The company owns two distilleries; the first, founded in 1934 in Yoichi, Yoichi Distillery and the second Miyagickyo Distillery in Miyagiken.
Matasaka Taketsuru is known as the father of Japanese whisky. Masataka was born into a family dedicated to the production of Sake, and determined to continue and take over the family business, he studied chemistry in Japan until 1918 when Scotch whisky attracted his attention. So Masataka embarked on a voyage of discovery to Scotland, becoming the first Japanese to study whisky. During his stay he studied organic chemistry at the University of Glasgow and gained perspective and the importance of artisan making by working as an apprentice in different distilleries.
In 1923 he returns to Japan with vast knowledge of the world of whisky and with a Scottish woman. That same year, as master distiller and co-founder, the first whisky distillery in Japan, Suntory, was inaugurated. Shortly afterwards, Masataka became independent and created his own distillery in 1934, Nikka.
Country: Japan.
Region: Yoichi.
Style: Single Malt.
Breeding: Seventeen years of maturation in American oak barrels of ex-bourbon and sherry barrels.
Nose: Nuts, tobacco leaf, leather and honey.
Mouth: Spicy cinnamon, liquorice and honey.
Final: Medium persistence, bittersweet and spicy.
A very rare bottle of one of the blended malts that have made Nikka famous, a whisky that changed the history of the distillery and consolidated Japanese whisky vis-à-vis the world.