Yoichi 1988 20 Year Old

A stunning release of Yoichi, the flagship distillery of Masataka Taketsuru's Nikka.

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 company, modelling its pot stills on the long-necked design of the Longmorn stills in Speyside.

New oak and refill casks are used for this expression, as well as bourbon barrels and sherry butts in combination with heavily peated whisky matured in new casks.