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Yoichi 26 Year Old SMWS 116.16

Lot: 6146890

Yoichi 26 Year Old SMWS 116.16

Winning Bid: £3,020

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Yoichi
Age: 
26 Year Old
Vintage: 
n/a
Region: 
Japan
Bottler: 
SMWS
Cask Type: 
REfill ex bourbon hogshead
Bottled Strength: 
59.6%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Yoichi 26 Year Old SMWS 116.16

A SMWS bottling of Yoichi, matured in a new cask butt and limited to 261 bottles.

"Almond slices and cricket bats". 

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) was founded in 1983 by a group of friends lead by tax accountant Phillip ‘Pip’ Hills as a private members club. The concept behind the society was to source casks from all over Scotland which would then be bottled and made available exclusively to its members. Perhaps the most famous feature of these bottles are the unique codes. Each distillery is represented by a different number and the following digits indicate that particular release. That same year, the SMWS set up its first location in Leith’s Vault buildings in Edinburgh where it still stands today.

A Japanese single malt bottling from Nikka's flagship distillery in Hokkaido. 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.  Taketsuru opened the Yoichi distillery in the same year as establishing the company, modelling its pot stills on the long-necked design of the Longmorn stills in Speyside.

 

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