Nikka "Yoichi" Single Malt 10 Year

[Quaich1]

Here are my taste notes from today.

Neat-

Nose: Sweet BBQ rub, smoke, coal essences., licorice, salt lick, "sticky lice", earthy, pungent, peat, cinnamon n' bulrushes, extreme smoked/ BBQ"d salmon and a musty library filled with antique books.

Palate: Spices, smoke, peat, black licorice, smooth, sweetness and berry throat lozenges.

Finish: Long, spices, smoke, salty, coal tar notes, high cocoa content dark chocolate, After 8 mints and aromatic pipe tobacco, cloves and mince pie.

If I didn't know what this was, it could pass for an aromatic single malt scotch from Islay. It has a lovely penetrating nose, solid and forceful palate and a lasting and pleasant finish.
Quite a surprise here. I would highly recommend it. This is as complex a dram as I have had for some time. The finish never ends.


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"Always carry a large flagon of whisky in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake."
W.C. Fields (1880-1946)

[James T]

I did take them a few years to master the art of producing a good whisky and they have certainly done that now with more than a few very good Japanese whiskies around now.