Nikka Pure Malt Taketsuru Tasting Notes and Ratings.

WHISKIES TASTED AND RATED: 3832

Nikka Pure Malt Taketsuru

Added on Sunday, Nov 20, 2016 at 04:25 AM

Bottler:

Nikka

Age:	NAS yrs	Type:	Japanese
Vintage:	N/A	Subtype:	Vatted Malt
ABV:	43.00 %	Region:
Price:	$70	Availability:	Better Stores

Taketsuru's no-age-statement blended malt is a marriage of single malts from both the Yoichi distillery on Hokkaido, and the Miyagikyo distillery near Sendai. Aged on average for around 10 years in a variety of different cask types.

Member Ratings and Notes

Ries

n: vanilla cream and sweet. Heavy caramel and vegetable oil. Syrupy fruit cocktail mix from the can. Light astringent nose.

t: grassy and sweet. Melon (cantalope), and vanilla caramel with simple syrup sweetness taking over in the middle. Black plums and a hint of paper smoke in the light finish. Quiet and simple, this is not bad, but it is a step down from the 12 year and doesn't leave me wanting more. [C/C+]

More pronounced vanilla, more grassy/vegetal than 12 year old.

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