Nikka Miyagikyo 10 Year Single Malt - 700ml Stitzel Weller The bottle’s design itself celebrates

The bottle’s design itself celebrates the distillery’s history

A tight fistful of spice gets tossed in with some cocoa

and only a tiny portion of peated spirit goes into their flagship expressions

smoky flavors of Islay whisky with Yamazaki’s signature refinement

This is the 1st release of Hibiki from 1989 and although it is a non-age-statement it is known to contain single malt whiskies from Hakushu and Yamazaki blended with grain whisky from the Chita distillery with an average age of 17-21 Years and used whiskey as old as 40 years

Nikka Miyagikyo 10 Year Single Malt - 700ml Stitzel Weller The bottle’s design itself celebratesMiyagikyo 10 Year Old Miyagikyo was built in 1969 by the Nikka Whisky company. Nikka was founded in 1934 by Masataka Taketsuru, a former Suntory employee who had studied at the University of Glasgow, and later trained as a blender at the now lost Hazelburn distillery in Campbeltown. Miyagikyo is primarily a malt distillery, but now also produces Nikkas grain whisky after it moved the Nishinomaya coffey stills there in the 1999. A former constituent of