Nikka reviews

Suntory had only just released its blend ‘Toki’ when Nikka launched this ‘Days’ as successor to the very popular (and much better!) Nikka All Malt. The big difference is of course that Days is not only…

The Nikka Black Crossover is the limited edition of a blend that Nikka released in 2017. It comes in a square black bottle.The nose starts with sweet and fruity flavours: oranges, a touch of sherry,…

Black Nikka is a very popular Japanese blended whisky. This limited edition was bottled in 2016 to commemorate its 60th anniversary. It contains malt and grain whisky from Yoichi and Miyagikyo distill…

Neat at Barcelo Madrid Tower Hotel. It pours clean dark golden, some amber highlights. Aroma is very intense and sweet: vanilla, crème brûlée, pudding, caramel: all that. Some red hot pepper and tobacco…

Beautiful 50 cl bottle that looks like a perfume's. Inside it the whisky looks much darker, but once poured it is dark wheat with some greenish highlights. Aroma is very intense and sweetish: cookies,…

This lesser known blend by Nikka is meant for the Japanese market. The label says ‘Malt Base Whisky’. What does that mean? That it contains malt whisky and thus is a blend, I suppose, as this Nikka is…

The Nikka Coffey Malt Whisky has no age statement. The reviewed bottle is owned by @Maddie. The whisky was sampled when the bottle was first opened and again 3 weeks laterNose: strong intensity malt…

Both Yoichi and Miyagikyo single malts are distilled in traditional pot stills, but the company Nikka also has several column stills as well, called Coffey stills. Those are used to create both grain and…

Both Yoichi and Miyagikyo single malts are distilled in traditional pot stills, but the company Nikka also has several column stills as well, called Coffey stills. Those are used to create both grain and…

The Pure Malt Black from Nikka, should it have been a Scottish product, would have to be called Blended Malt Black. It is composed with mostly Yoichi malt whisky, but upholstered with peated malt of…