Whiskey Discovery Box - Lindrum and Nikka
Lindrum: from "Lìn" (glacial wind) and "Drum" (hill) in Gaelic. A "Multi-single" 12-year-old haute couture: single blended malt from 12 cups from 12 single malt distilleries. Production limited to 15,000 bottles per year with numbered bottles. The year of bottling is mentioned on the label. This whiskey is refined up to 12 months in barrels of Loupiac of Château de Ricaud. Nikka: In 1918, Masataka Taketsuru was recruited by the Settsu Shuzo Company to produce the first authentic Japanese whiskey. With a training in chemistry, the young man decides to leave for Scotland, in order to discover the secrets of the production of whiskey. A few years later, after the bankruptcy of his employer and the hiring by a giant of the beer industry, he realized his dream: to build his own distillery. For his first distillery, Masataka Taketsuru was looking for conditions similar to Scotland, where he himself had learned everything about making whiskey. Just before the Second World War, Masataka Taketsuru founded the company Dai Nippon Kaju, which means "the great Japanese juice company." Finally, he adopted the name Nikka Whiskey in 1952, a combination of NI-PPON and KA-ju. Miyagikyo distillery is built in 1969, in the heart of the natural environment, from which whiskeys draw their sweetness, elegance and purity. Died 10 years after the construction of Miyagikyo, at the age of 85, it would be Undoubtedly very happy to know that its whiskeys have acquired a great notoriety in Europe, the country where it all began.