After Nikka’s 21 year old whisky won “World’s Best Blended Malt” for 2010 (remember this is a blended single malt, not a blended whisky — meaning there’s no grain whisky added)
The complexity of spice and nuance on the palate of the 21 year is incredible — rich, round fruit, cocoa, exotic spices, and even a hint of soy sauce — and the finish goes on forever.
Aged for twenty-one years, this rare whisky, which was made by the Father of Japanese Whisky, was named the World’s Best Blended Malt Whisky by Whisky Magazine in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and is considered to be “one of the greatest whiskies of our time.”