Nikka's founder Masataka Taketsuru is considered the father of Japanese whisky. After completing studies in chemistry, he was recruited by the Settsu Shuzo company, who sent him to Scotland in 1918 to complete his apprenticeship. There he developed a passion for whisky and decided to dedicate his life to it. In 1934, he built Yoichi, his first distillery, on the island of Hokkaido. Its growing success enabled him to establish a second distillery in 1969, near Sendai, named Miyagikyo. It is from the single malts of these two distilleries that the Nikka Whisky group produces its entire range of Japanese whiskies.

A gift set featuring the Taketsuru 17 Year Old, 21 Year Old and 25 Year Old. The series is named after Masataka Taketsuru, the founder of the renowned group and the first Japanese person to travel to Scotland to learn the secrets of whisky production in the late 1910s. Each bottling is a blend of malt whiskies from the group’’s two distilleries, Yoichi and Miyagikyo. These editions were discontinued in 2020 due to unsustainable demand.