Born in 1894 into a family of sake producers, Masataka Taketsuru is considered the father of Japanese whisky. After training as a chemist, he was hired by the Settsu Shuzo company, which sent him to Scotland in 1919 to complete his apprenticeship, where he developed a passion for whisky and decided to devote his life to it.

Nikka's magnificent Coffey Grain single casks need no introduction, and some of them have gone straight into the whisky pantheon.

Still very exclusive, Nikka has decided to create a permanent version of this whisky to enable everyone to discover this particularly suave and charming style. Made with a majority of corn from the Coffey stills, this original single grain offers a glimpse of the grain whiskies that form the basis of all Nikka blends.