Nikka Miyagikyo Peated 2021 is the Miyagikyo counterpart in the inaugural Nikka Discovery Series — Miyagikyo Single Malt made entirely from peated malts, inverting the distillery's well-known light and fruity identity to demonstrate what the Sendai distillery produces when given the ingredient most associated with its Hokkaido counterpart, revealing an exquisite combination of distinctive peaty notes and boldness with the signature estery character that Miyagikyo always retains.

Miyagikyo is Nikka's elegant distillery — built to be light, fruity, and floral as a counterpoint to the heavy, peated Yoichi. The Discovery Series 2021 Peated edition asks: what happens when Miyagikyo's indirect steam pot still distillation, sherry cask influence, and specific yeast and fermentation environment work with peated malt rather than the non-peated malt they were designed for? The answer is not simply a peated version of Miyagikyo — it is a different whisky that still carries the distillery's signature estery character as a through-line beneath the smoke, producing a combination that no other distillery could replicate because it is specific to Miyagikyo's distillation approach meeting an atypical ingredient.

Tasting Notes

• Nose: Peaty and bold — the smoke of the peated malt combined with the estery, fruity aromatics that define the Miyagikyo distillery character
• Palate: Exquisite combination of distinctive peaty notes and boldness — the smoke and the distillery's inherent elegance in productive tension
• Finish: The signature estery hint in the aftertaste — Miyagikyo's identity persisting through the peat

Specs

• Distillery: Miyagikyo Distillery, Nikka Whisky, Sendai, Japan
• Series: Nikka Discovery Series — Year 1 (2021)
• Style: Japanese Single Malt Whisky — Peated
• ABV: 48% (96 Proof)
• Size: 750ml

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