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Forty years in an Oloroso sherry butt at Karuizawa’s closed Nagano distillery, bottled at cask strength in 2012 for the Taiwan market, yields the densely sherried, leather-and-dark-fruit richness that placed this small mountain distillery at the top of the global collector market.
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Karuizawa distillery in Nagano Prefecture operated from 1956 until its closure in 2000, demolishing the site in 2016. This 1972 vintage single cask was matured in an Oloroso sherry butt for 40 years before bottling at cask strength in 2012 as a distillery release for the Taiwan market, at 55.9% abv.
At a notably lower cask strength than many of its contemporaries, this 40 Years Old is an interesting outlier: the lower abv at cask strength suggests greater evaporative loss or a more porous cask, which can actually deepen the extract-to-spirit ratio and produce a particularly dense, concentrated Oloroso character. Forty years in sherry wood builds dark plum, leather, mocha and the slowly oxidising richness that defines Karuizawa's celebrated sherry cask canon. The Taiwan market was a key destination for Karuizawa's most prized releases, reflecting the distillery's strong following across Asian collector markets.
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