Nikka Yoichi 12 Year Japanese Single Malt Whisky - 700ml Black Maple Hill Rye Four Roses Distillery

Four Roses Distillery

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A powerful cask-strength 20-year-old single malt from the Yoichi distillery that previously bested some very high-profile Scottish malts at a blind tasting in 2003 and received 95 points in Jim Murray's Whisky Bible

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Nikka Yoichi 12 Year Japanese Single Malt Whisky - 700ml Black Maple Hill Rye Four Roses DistilleryA 12 year old from Nikka's Yoichi distillery. The age statement is now, sadly discontinued. A Japanese single malt bottling from Nikka's flagship distillery in Hokkaido. Nikka was founded in 1934 by Masataka Taketsuru, a former Suntory employee who had studied at the University of Glasgow, and later trained as a blender at the now lost Hazelburn distillery in Campbeltown. Taketsuru opened the Yoichi distillery in the same year as establishing the