Yoichi 1989 Single Bourbon Cask #228375 20 Year Old / Whisky Live 10th Anniversary

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.

This whisky was distilled on 4th November 1989 and laid to rest in single remade ex-Bourbon cask #228375 for 20 years before being bottled on 24th December 2009.

The cask was selected by Dave Broom for Whisky Live 2010.

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