caramel

oak

dried fruit

spicy

slightly sweet

smoky

black pepper

vanilla

orange zest

Nikka

Super Revival Limited

Tasting Notes

Appearance / Color

Cherry Wood

Nose / Aroma / Smell

Dried herbs, exotic spice, roasted almonds

Flavor / Taste / Palate

Thick and rich with notes of sweet honey, lemon grass, and a hint of tarragon in new oak

Finish

Long, crisp, with baking spices

Smartass Corner

The original Limited Edition Super Nikka was released in 1962. Rare full bottles still occasionally come up for auction, fetching thousands of dollars each.

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About
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Nikka Super “Revival” Limited is a romantic story of love and spirit across time and space.

Masataka Taketsuru was the son of a Sake producer. As a young man he was sent to Scotland to learn the secrets of Whisky. He did… but he also learned about love. He met Rita Cowen — a Scottish lass whom he married and took back to Japan with him. In 1934, he founded Yoichi Distillery in southern Hokkaido on a spot surrounded on three sides by mountains — a terrain and climate very similar to the Scottish Highlands. Yoichi has its own cooperage and makes its casks on-site using new oak, producing big, oily Whiskies in the Highland style.

Taketsuru became Japan’s first master distiller. But in 1961, Rita passed away. He knew that the only way to demonstrate his affection was to make a masterpiece of Whisky in her honor — choosing the oldest and finest single-malt spirits to blend the Limited Edition Super Nikka. The current masters at Nikka decided to do it all again. They tested one of the rare surviving 1962 Super Nikka bottles from a private collection. Then they aged and blended and tested until they got it just right. The result is Nikka Super “Revival” Limited.