Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt 17 Year 750ml

Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt 17 Year - In the competitive world of whisky few bottles can stay top of their class for long, but this blended malt from Japanese whisky brand Nikka was recently named ‘World’s Best Blended Malt’ at the World Whiskies Awards for the second consecutive year. This award-winning bottle is part of Nikka’s Taketsuru range; named in honour of Nikka founder and father of Japanese whisky, Masataka Taketsuru. He is widely credited with bringing the craft of real single malt whisky to Japan in the 1920’s. Taketsuru’s family owned a Sake brewery which has been producing since 1733, but it was the unique characteristics of Scotch whisky which captured Masataka’s imagination. In 1918 he enrolled at the University of Glasgow to study chemistry, and used his time in Scotland to learn the art of distilling and blending by taking apprenticeships at Longmorn, James Calder and Hazelburn distilleries. Armed with the secrets of scotch, Masataka returned to Japan in 1920 with his