I’m trying to keep my posts linking together. Let’s see how long I can keep this up from previously in Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky I finished up talking about summer grain whiskies and the concept of a seasonable whisky. No spoilers but oh my days is this a summertime dram!

The Whisky

The Days whisky is a blended whisky containing malt (both peated and unpeated) and grain whisky . Bottled at the 40% ABV this is a £40 a bottle whisky in the UK. Some websites will tell you this is a marriage of whiskies from a couple of the distilleries in the Nikka portfolio in Japan. However, recently Japanese distilleries have had to change up their labelling to stipulate what is and is not Japanese whisky under a new definition and Nikka Days is not Japanese whisky under Japan Spirits & Liqueur Makers Association rules. I will do a separate article just now this at some point soon but rest assured what this means is not all the distillate was created in Japan.

Tasting Notes

Producer’s Notes

Nose – Apples, pears and strawberry liquorice. Perfumed notes of daiginjo sake and white melon. Grainy flavours develop, with freshly crushed barley and malting floor sweetness floating out of the glass. White chocolate and a sprinkling of lemon zest sit at the back.

Palate Creamy and soft, with grapes and apples on top of toffee and candied lemon. Delicate white chocolate notes are joined by darker liquorice hints and a tiny touch of barrel char smokiness. Right at the back is a bowl of apples, freshly peeled and sliced.

Finish – Lemon zest and buttery biscuits. Barley sugar sweetness to leave grain and spice.

Comments – Delicate and fragrant at first, with more weight hiding behind. A great all-rounder with enough complexity to sip and enough oomph to shine in a mixed drink.

Our Tasting Notes

Colour – Champagne Gold

Nose – Fruit salad sweets, melon, pear cider and just summertime. Damn that’s good. In time some of those top sweet notes evaporate off and open up a toffee note

Palate – On sipping we develop from the sweeter notes to more toasted notes with a sour apple note cutting through

Finish – the nose and palate inter play with flashes of sweet confectionary and sweat inducing sour notes dancing about

Conclusion

This is one I would genuinely buy again. I spent basically the entire night on just this sample with the utterly delicious and devine smell to the contrasting mouthfeel and palate flavours this is a good spend of £40 in any economy.