Nikka Miyagikyo 12 Year Old Single Malt 700ml

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The spectacular Miyagikyo 12 year is a true masterpiece. This special distillery in the Sendai prefecture makes some of the best whisky in Japan. Softly smoky and utterly irresistible, the 12 year old from Miyagikiyo shows incredible balance and complexity. The pungent nose of bright fruit and soft phenol is marked by a wonderful honeyed vanilla. On the palate the richness is evident and the sweetness is perfectly balanced by the most subtle whiffs of peat, grass, earth and exotic wood.

In 1918, Masataka Taketsuru, son of a sake brewing family, is recruited by the Settsu Shuzo Company to produce the first authentic Japanese whisky. With a background in chemistry, the young man decides to leave for Scotland, in the aim of discovering the secrets of whisky production. A few months after his arrival, Taketsuru meets Rita Cowan, with whom he immediately falls in love with. Rita becomes his wife, but also his muse.
Two years later, the couple returns to Japan. In 1922, his employer Settsu Shuzo goes bankrupt following a stock market crash. Taketsuru then joins the Kotobukiya group, a beer industry giant later renamed Suntory. However, in 1934 he founded his own distilling company, Dai Nippon Kaju K.K., in Yoichi on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. He believed that this part of Japan was the most similar to Scotland. He later renamed the company Nikka.