Masataka taketsuru whisky reviews
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Review: Nikka Taketsuru “Pure Malt” 21-year-old
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Masataka taketsuru whisky reviews
That map down there doesn’t look much like Scotland!
Well spotted – we’re exploring Japan this time around. The land of the rising sun has an almost century-long whisky tradition which was begun by the founder of the Nikka Whisky company, Masataka Taketsuru, in 1920.
Many Japanese whiskies are world-class; this Nikka “Pure Malt” Taketsuru 21 has won several awards and as I write this, the 17-year-old version has just won “Best Blended Malt” at Whisky Magazine’s World Whiskies Awards.
It’s not just Nikka either; Suntory has an excellent line of single malts, especially from their Yamazaki distillery (I highly recommend the 12-year-old or the 18-year-old, both superb).
The Taketsuru range are labeled as “pure malts” which sounds like a marketing term, but it does actually mean something.
More commonly known as a blended