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.

Nikka Super Revival was created in tribute to the blend designed by Masataka Taketsuru when his wife Rita died and launched in 1962. At the time it was the group’’s most expensive bottling. This Revival version is a blend of Yoichi and grain whisky designed to more closely imitate the original rather than the current Nikka Super.