Nikka Single Malt Whisky Miyagikyo Aromatic Yeast

Nikka Single Malt Miyagikyo Aromatic Yeast is the Sendai distillery's Discovery Series yeast expression — Miyagikyo Single Malt produced using an aromatic yeast from Nikka's culture collection that generates an estery character reminiscent of ginjo sake, applied here to the Miyagikyo distillery's already elegant, fruity, and floral house style to create a whisky of heightened aromatic intensity.

Where the Yoichi Aromatic Yeast creates an interesting tension between the aromatic ester character and the distillery's bold peat and smoke, the Miyagikyo Aromatic Yeast produces a more harmonious result — the ginjo-like estery aromatics of the special yeast align naturally with Miyagikyo's existing elegant fruitiness, amplifying and focusing the distillery's characteristic aroma rather than contrasting with it. The result is a Miyagikyo of exceptional aromatic definition, demonstrating how the same yeast applied to two fundamentally different distilleries produces two fundamentally different experiences. Nikka maintains this culture collection specifically to enable exactly these kinds of controlled ingredient experiments that reveal the craft behind their standard expressions.

Tasting Notes

• Nose: The aromatic yeast's ginjo-like estery character fully expressed in Miyagikyo's naturally elegant, floral, and fruity distillery profile — more intensely aromatic than standard Miyagikyo
• Palate: Elegant and aromatic — the unique yeast character and Miyagikyo's original elegance in harmonious balance
• Finish: Refined and lingering with the ester character integrated into the distillery's characteristic clean close

Specs

• Distillery: Miyagikyo Distillery, Nikka Whisky, Sendai, Japan
• Series: Nikka Discovery Series — Aromatic Yeast
• Style: Japanese Single Malt Whisky
• Yeast: Aromatic yeast from Nikka's culture collection — ginjo sake-like estery character
• Size: 750ml

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