Description
A pot still decanter containing the famous Japanese blended whisky. Designed in homage to eponymous Kingsland, the first pot still used by Nikka. This bottle was released in 1980.
Nikka
Nikka Kingsland Antique Bottle, 1980, 43%
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TypeBlended Whisky
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- Type
- Blended Whisky
- Region
- Japan
- Age
- N.A
- Vintage
- N.A
- Bottled
- 1980
- ABV
- 43%
- Volume
- 72cl
- Distillery
- Nikka
- Origin
- Japan
- Cask type
- N.A
- Bottling
- Official Bottling
- Peated
- Lightly Peated
- Single cask
- No
- Non-chill filtered
- N.A
- Cask origin
- N.A
- Cask no.
- N.A
- Batch
- N.A
- PPM
- N.A
- Barley
- N.A
- Fermentation
- N.A
- Master distiller (bottling)
- N.A
- Master distiller (distillation)
- N.A
- Limited edition
- Yes
- Bottle count
- N.A
- Has box
- Yes
- Closure
- N.A
- Presentation
- Decanter bottle with box
- Series highlights
- N.A
- Historical context
- Nikka's 40th anniversary (1974)
- Special release
- Commemorative release for Nikka's 40th anniversary
- Allocation
- Japanese market
- Nose
- Full-bodied aroma, with hints of apple, malty and grainy elements, and smoke in the background.
- Palate
- Surprisingly spicy, with honey and sugary jelly beans, light to medium body, oily feel, light wood juice, sugar, seasoned wood with syrup, diluted floral honey, diluted sugar, hints of smoke, smoked twigs, plastic wood in a syrup marinade.
- Finish
- Quite short, sweet and dry, medium to long, mostly diluted honey, light diluted tea, wood part of smoked wood.