Nikka Yoichi 10 YO
The Yoichi 10yo is a real gem for all the people who love eastern whisky. In the Single Malt World Cup 2005 this whisky was selected the best with contesters from Scotland, Ireland, and Japan.
Nose: Plummy fruit is almost last amid a sea of salty, peaty malt. An enormous bouquet but amazingly well restrained, especially the oak. The sweetness is charming, and appears to depend on the smoky skeleton of the aroma. Quite breathtaking, fresh and truly fabulous. Taste: A massive peat surge is immediately countered by an oaky driyness. But soon the peat returns in a kippery, salty style. Massive and chewy with an ever-increasing oiliness and sweetness. Finish: Remains oily to the death with a crescendo of spice that dies off to allow wave upon wave of cocoa and that massive, chunky peatiness to cling to the roof of the mouth. Colour: Amber with gold reflection. Comment: This is how a single cask should be: enormous and complex yet showing exactly what the distillery has to offer. Huge and uncompromising, this is a true classic among the world's single malts; just about unparalleled as a Japanese whisky. Nikka Yoichi was marked the highest score in "THE WORLD'S WHISKY TASTING(3 continents, 47 brands, 62 judges)"in "WHISKY MAGAZINE",
Tasting note by Distillery site
About the whisky
- Age: 10 YO
- Alcohol: 45,0%
- Distillery: Yoichi Distillery
- Region: Yoichi, Hokkaidō
- Country: Japan
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If you visited to me and never tasted a Japanese whisky before or any whisky at all for that sake this is probably what i would offer you. Its a great standard malt at a bargain price! Really worth every penny.
Like Jens says it has quite a lot and mixes it together very well, you have sweet, salt, peat, oil and a Japanese twist to it. Really refreshing and mouthwatering.
This was the bottle that started my interest in whisky and took me away from the horrible low-price blends with coca-cola… Shrugs…
Fresh and fabulous. Oaky and salty with some oiliness and sweetness.
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