Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt Retailer:402 in Bourbon barrels and then

in Bourbon barrels and then in small 19th-century style Quarter Casks

along with the banks of the Kuma River

Not chill-filtered or carbon treated and bottled at 92 proof

a few casks were forgotten in an out-of-the-way corner

complemented by the sweeter tones of vanilla and toffee from the American oak

Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt Retailer:402 in Bourbon barrels and thenJapanese Style Blend. Made by the Yoichi distillery, the second and smaller distillery of the Nikka Whisky Company. It was founded in 1934 by one of the two most influential men in Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru. Yoichi Distillery lies in southern Hokkaido and has three sides surrounded by mountains, a terrain similar to the one found in Scotland, where Masataka studied the art of Whisky production and returned to Japan as a master blender with a