By: Roberta

Roberta — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:37:01 +0000

I hold no severe grugde against Nikka and assume they have valid reasons for acting the way they do, but still…Because of my interest for these grain “experiments” as I call them (because at this level, let’s face it, that’s what the Coffey Grain & Coffey Malt are), I invested in other Miyagikyo whiskies and was each time disappointed.Now in the long run, I’m glad I know other Miyagikyo bottles. As a Japanese whisky fan, I would have tried them anyway sooner or later, but as a European customer, I still feel misled.You’re right, most people don’t care about all that. I even met some whisky fans who didn’t even know what Yoichi and Miyagikyo are, and thought that Nikka is a distillery, and yet that never prevented them to enjoy what’s in their glass.But I want to know what distillery the whisky I’m drinking is from, no matter if it’s still in activity or not.When the information is simply not available (which is sometimes the case with some small Scottish independant bottlings), I can live with it. But when I’m misled and told that a particular whisky is from a distillery when in fact it’s from another, that just doesn’t rock my boat at all.Nikka may have been straight about it in some one shot Japanese press release, but when even The Whisky Exchange gives wrong information about the bottles they sell, it just shows that Nikka hasn’t been straight enough, at least in my book.

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By: Roberta