Nikka Gold & Gold Samurai Edition Blended 750ml w/box - 6bots 750mlx6

This blended whisky from Nikka comes with a fantastic Samurai a helmet and armour. Gold & Gold has been one of the mainstays of Nikka’s range of blended whiskies since its launch in 1968. This version is actually called “Shirobin” (White Bottle), even though the labeling is all in black.

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.