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Nikka Yoichi Single Malt

余市

What it costs in Japan

Can you actually buy it here?

Stocked by ordinary Japanese liquor shops and supermarkets at list price.

Our estimate · checked August 2026

Is it Japanese whisky?

Mashed, fermented, distilled, matured and bottled in Japan, per the Japan Spirits & Liqueurs Makers Association standard.

How it tastes

Still distilled over direct coal fire, which almost nobody does anymore and which you can taste: char, weight, a faint salt from the sea outside. Yoichi is the closest Japan gets to a Highland distillery, which is exactly what Masataka Taketsuru went to Scotland to learn.

Our estimates, scored the same way across every bottle so they can be compared.

Specification

Where to buy outside Japan

• The Whisky Exchange — ships from UK · not yet linked (affiliate application pending)
• Master of Malt — ships from UK · not yet linked (affiliate application pending)

UK retailers ship to the US state by state, and the list changes. Check your state on the retailer's own site before ordering — any state list we published here would be out of date within months.

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