Nikka Taketsuru 21 Years Japanese Pure Malt Blended Whisky 43.0% ABV - rare old bottling for the Japanese market of the Worlds Best Blended Malt!
This is a great 21 year old blended malt named for Nikka s founder, the whisky-pilgrim Masataka Taketsuru. The Nikka Taketsuru 21 Years Blended Malt whisky is distilled exclusively from barley malt, and is considered to be the forefather of all other types of whisky. In general, it is divided into single malt whisky (several malt whiskies from a single distillery vatted together) and pure malt whisky (malt whisky from several distilleries vatted together). This pure malt whisky is characterized by a deep and flavorful richness and excellent balance unique to whisky matured for 21 years. You re sure to enjoy the nose, which blends the richness of ripe fruit with the elegance of the aged cask, and the complex changes in character that appear as the finish approaches. Japanese whisky at its best!
Here the bottling of a rare old Japan version of LMDW in the black box.
- 2015 World Whiskies Awards, Best Japanes Blended Malt Whisk 21 Years and over
- 2012 World Whiskies Awards, Best Non Scotch Blended Malt Whisk 21 Years and over
- 2011 World Whiskies Awards, World s Best Blended Malt
- 2010 World Whiskies Awards, World s Best Blended Malt
- 2009 World Whiskies Awards, World s Best Blended Malt
- 2008 World Whiskies Awards, Best Non Scotch Blended Malt Whisk
- 2007 World Whiskies Awards, World s Best Blended Malt
- Nose: firm, lively! A great mixture of almond paste, flowers (iris, honeysuckle), citrus (lemon, orange) and salt, it is particularly powerful. It develops with vanilla, new oak, menthol and fresh tobacco notes, Finally, gentian gives it a pleasant bitterness
- Palate: sweet, balanced, spicy (clove, nutmeg), growing in intensity. Praline and nuts (almond, cashew nut) calm the harsh flavours. This gives way to ripe fruit (pear, apple), vanilla and exotic fruit (pineapple, persimmon).
- Finish: long, tender. Languishing on freshly cut grass, star anis and green liquorice. The peat is all but a memory.
- Colour: old gold with a green highlight
- Typ: Blended Malt Whisky (Yoichi and Miyagikyo Single Malts) - Distillery Bottling
- District: Japan - Honshu
- Age: 21 years old
- Cask Wood Type: Sherry
- Alcohol ABV% 43.0
- Bottling Series: 21 years old Blended Malt
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- not coloured / chill filtered
- Packaging original boxed (box with traces and scratches)
- Producer/Importer: The Nikka Whisky Distilling Co., LTD, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8616 - Japan / La Maison Du Whisky, 8-10 Rue Gustave Eiffel, 92110 Clichy - France
- Country of Origin: Japan
- limited, number unknown - rare old Japan bottling!
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