Miyagikyo 1990

2 reviews \Average rating: 53

1. 

   Gunjan

   11 April 2015 at 20 h 10 min · Reply

   Nose

   Hi Chris,Thoroughly enjoying your "Ended Up Drinking It!" blog. I'm an atuolsbe novice when it comes to whisk(e)y but I do enjoy sipping some in the evening after a long day of intense cycling.I find the way you describe the different sensations and flavors when sampling whiskies very fascinating.Your blog is helping me discover many of Japan's wonderful whiskies and I just wanted to thank you for that!Cheers,TomPS: tried the Nikka All Malt last evening...very good even straight! Can't wait to try the "From the Barrel". Another favorite inexpensive Japanese whisky of mine is Fujisanroku - I like the peat flavor of this one, a bit like Laphroaig.... I also sampled some "fake" (i.e. French-produced) Scotch "Glen Turner" I bought at Yamaya...it smelled like cardboard to me!

   Palate

   Hi Chris,Thoroughly enjoying your "Ended Up Drinking It!" blog. I'm an atuolsbe novice when it comes to whisk(e)y but I do enjoy sipping some in the evening after a long day of intense cycling.I find the way you describe the different sensations and flavors when sampling whiskies very fascinating.Your blog is helping me discover many of Japan's wonderful whiskies and I just wanted to thank you for that!Cheers,TomPS: tried the Nikka All Malt last evening...very good even straight! Can't wait to try the "From the Barrel". Another favorite inexpensive Japanese whisky of mine is Fujisanroku - I like the peat flavor of this one, a bit like Laphroaig.... I also sampled some "fake" (i.e. French-produced) Scotch "Glen Turner" I bought at Yamaya...it smelled like cardboard to me!

   Finish

   Hi Chris,Thoroughly enjoying your "Ended Up Drinking It!" blog. I'm an atuolsbe novice when it comes to whisk(e)y but I do enjoy sipping some in the evening after a long day of intense cycling.I find the way you describe the different sensations and flavors when sampling whiskies very fascinating.Your blog is helping me discover many of Japan's wonderful whiskies and I just wanted to thank you for that!Cheers,TomPS: tried the Nikka All Malt last evening...very good even straight! Can't wait to try the "From the Barrel". Another favorite inexpensive Japanese whisky of mine is Fujisanroku - I like the peat flavor of this one, a bit like Laphroaig.... I also sampled some "fake" (i.e. French-produced) Scotch "Glen Turner" I bought at Yamaya...it smelled like cardboard to me!

   Rating

   61/100

   Comm.

   Hi Chris,Thoroughly enjoying your “Ended Up Drinking It!” blog. I’m an atuolsbe novice when it comes to whisk(e)y but I do enjoy sipping some in the evening after a long day of intense cycling.I find the way you describe the different sensations and flavors when sampling whiskies very fascinating.Your blog is helping me discover many of Japan’s wonderful whiskies and I just wanted to thank you for that!Cheers,TomPS: tried the Nikka All Malt last evening…very good even straight! Can’t wait to try the “From the Barrel”. Another favorite inexpensive Japanese whisky of mine is Fujisanroku – I like the peat flavor of this one, a bit like Laphroaig…. I also sampled some “fake” (i.e. French-produced) Scotch “Glen Turner” I bought at Yamaya…it smelled like cardboard to me!

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     Melani

     12 August 2015 at 1 h 03 min · Reply

     Nose

     I hold no severe gdgrue against Nikka and assume they have valid reasons for acting the way they do, but still...Because of my interest for these grain "experiments" as I call them (because at this level, let's face it, that's what the Coffey Grain & Coffey Malt are), I invested in other Miyagikyo whiskies and was each time disappointed.Now in the long run, I'm glad I know other Miyagikyo bottles. As a Japanese whisky fan, I would have tried them anyway sooner or later, but as a European customer, I still feel misled.You're right, most people don't care about all that. I even met some whisky fans who didn't even know what Yoichi and Miyagikyo are, and thought that Nikka is a distillery, and yet that never prevented them to enjoy what's in their glass.But I want to know what distillery the whisky I'm drinking is from, no matter if it's still in activity or not.When the information is simply not available (which is sometimes the case with some small Scottish independant bottlings), I can live with it. But when I'm misled and told that a particular whisky is from a distillery when in fact it's from another, that just doesn't rock my boat at all.Nikka may have been straight about it in some one shot Japanese press release, but when even The Whisky Exchange gives wrong information about the bottles they sell, it just shows that Nikka hasn't been straight enough, at least in my book.

     Palate

     I hold no severe gdgrue against Nikka and assume they have valid reasons for acting the way they do, but still...Because of my interest for these grain "experiments" as I call them (because at this level, let's face it, that's what the Coffey Grain & Coffey Malt are), I invested in other Miyagikyo whiskies and was each time disappointed.Now in the long run, I'm glad I know other Miyagikyo bottles. As a Japanese whisky fan, I would have tried them anyway sooner or later, but as a European customer, I still feel misled.You're right, most people don't care about all that. I even met some whisky fans who didn't even know what Yoichi and Miyagikyo are, and thought that Nikka is a distillery, and yet that never prevented them to enjoy what's in their glass.But I want to know what distillery the whisky I'm drinking is from, no matter if it's still in activity or not.When the information is simply not available (which is sometimes the case with some small Scottish independant bottlings), I can live with it. But when I'm misled and told that a particular whisky is from a distillery when in fact it's from another, that just doesn't rock my boat at all.Nikka may have been straight about it in some one shot Japanese press release, but when even The Whisky Exchange gives wrong information about the bottles they sell, it just shows that Nikka hasn't been straight enough, at least in my book.

     Finish

     I hold no severe gdgrue against Nikka and assume they have valid reasons for acting the way they do, but still...Because of my interest for these grain "experiments" as I call them (because at this level, let's face it, that's what the Coffey Grain & Coffey Malt are), I invested in other Miyagikyo whiskies and was each time disappointed.Now in the long run, I'm glad I know other Miyagikyo bottles. As a Japanese whisky fan, I would have tried them anyway sooner or later, but as a European customer, I still feel misled.You're right, most people don't care about all that. I even met some whisky fans who didn't even know what Yoichi and Miyagikyo are, and thought that Nikka is a distillery, and yet that never prevented them to enjoy what's in their glass.But I want to know what distillery the whisky I'm drinking is from, no matter if it's still in activity or not.When the information is simply not available (which is sometimes the case with some small Scottish independant bottlings), I can live with it. But when I'm misled and told that a particular whisky is from a distillery when in fact it's from another, that just doesn't rock my boat at all.Nikka may have been straight about it in some one shot Japanese press release, but when even The Whisky Exchange gives wrong information about the bottles they sell, it just shows that Nikka hasn't been straight enough, at least in my book.

     Rating

     45/100

     Comm.

     I hold no severe gdgrue against Nikka and assume they have valid reasons for acting the way they do, but still…Because of my interest for these grain “experiments” as I call them (because at this level, let’s face it, that’s what the Coffey Grain & Coffey Malt are), I invested in other Miyagikyo whiskies and was each time disappointed.Now in the long run, I’m glad I know other Miyagikyo bottles. As a Japanese whisky fan, I would have tried them anyway sooner or later, but as a European customer, I still feel misled.You’re right, most people don’t care about all that. I even met some whisky fans who didn’t even know what Yoichi and Miyagikyo are, and thought that Nikka is a distillery, and yet that never prevented them to enjoy what’s in their glass.But I want to know what distillery the whisky I’m drinking is from, no matter if it’s still in activity or not.When the information is simply not available (which is sometimes the case with some small Scottish independant bottlings), I can live with it. But when I’m misled and told that a particular whisky is from a distillery when in fact it’s from another, that just doesn’t rock my boat at all.Nikka may have been straight about it in some one shot Japanese press release, but when even The Whisky Exchange gives wrong information about the bottles they sell, it just shows that Nikka hasn’t been straight enough, at least in my book.