web: http://www.nikka.com/
English Web: http://www.nikka.com/eng/
Products: http://www.nikka.com/product/index.html
Leaving Suntory, Masataka Taketsuru founded
a company producing apple juice or apple
wine in Hokkaido to get money for building
his own distillery. Nikka originates in the
company Nihonkaju. Nikka is producing cider,
apple wine and apple brandy still now. Nikka
has two distilleries Yoichi and Miyagikyo.
Miyagikyo has a grain whisky distillery and
a bottling plant.
Nikka is famouse at the high whisky quality
and has the Scotch malt whisky distillery
Ben Nevis. But the company is now a part
of a big beer company Asahi.
Yoichi
Address: Kurokawacho 7-6, Yoichimachi, Yoichigun,
Hokkaido 046-0003
TEL: 0135-23-3131
FAX: 0135-23-2202
Water: Local well
Visitor is welcome
Tour: Unavailable
Contact: JR Sapporo=>JR Otaru (1 hour)
JR Otaru=>JR Yoichi (1 hour by train 90
minutes by bus) JR Yoichi=>Yoichi distillery
(3 minutes on foot)
Yoichi Distillery:
http://www.nikka.com/know/yoichi/index.html
Map:
http://www.nikka.com/know/yoichi/direction.html
Yoichi distillery was founded in 1934
in Yoichi near the sea at the neck of Peninsula
Shakotan. It was called first as "Nikka
Whisky Hokkaido Plant". There was only
one still at the beginning and the second
distilling was done in the washed same still.
Hokkaido has the natural features similor
to Scotland and is famouse with the good
nature and plenty of fresh seafood. There
is also peat moor and the water from the
underground. Once the local peat was used
in the distillery. Now six stilles and some
are heated by coal fire. The building made
of stones is standing since the foundation.
Single malt whisky: Single Cask Yoichi 50-64%, Yoichi 20yo 52%, Yoichi 15yo 45%, Yoichi 12yo 45%, Yoichi 10yo 45%, Yoichi 43%
Miyagikyo
Address: Nikka 1, Aobaku, Sendaishi, Miyagiken
989-3433
TEL: 022-395-2865
Email:
sendai-service@nikka.com
Water: Rivers near the distillery
Visitor is welcome
Tour: Available
Contact: JR Sendai=>JR Sakunami (25 minutes)
JR Sakunami=>Miyagikyo Distillery (5 minutes
by TAKI)
Miyagikyo Distillery:
http://www.nikka.com/know/miyagikyou/index.html
Map:
http://www.nikka.com/know/miyagikyou/direction.html
Miyagikyo distillery is Nikka's second
distillery built in 1969. The distillery
is moderner than Hokkaido. Eight stilles.
The situation is in the north of Japanese
main land and warmer than Hokkaido. The distillery
stands in the forest between River Shin and
River Hirose among some mountains.
This distillery was first called as "Nikka
Whisky Sendai Plant'. Later renamed as 'Sendai
distillery'. Miyagikyo distillery at present.
Single malt whisky: Single Cask Miyagikyo 50-64%, Miyagikyo 10yo 45%, Miyagikyo 12yo 45%, Miyagikyo 15yo 45%
