Nikka
In 1918 the young food technology graduate Masataka Taketsuru left for Scotland, sent by the sake company he worked for, with the task of learning how to make whisky. Up to that point in Japan, no producer had yet ventured into the production of whiskey. It was in 1934 that Masataka Taketsuru created his first owned distillery, Yoichi, on the island of Hokkaido. In 1940 the first bottling of Nikka comes out, in the meantime Taketsuru starts looking for a second perfect place for the construction of the second distillation plant. The choice will fall on Miyagikyo, literally Miyagi Valley, near the city of Sendai. The plant will open its doors in 1969. We will have to wait for the new millennium to see the sparkling return of Japanese whisky, now also loved by Europe and the USA who had never drunk it before.
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