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A 1989 Karuizawa single cask from an Oloroso sherry cask, only 12 years old when bottled for Japan at cask strength, shows the distillery’s signature dried fruit and dark spice arriving early and with impressive force.
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Karuizawa distillery in Nagano Prefecture closed in 2000 after four decades of production under Mercian. Most of its celebrated releases were bottled after long ageing, but this single cask from the 1989 vintage was drawn after only 12 years and bottled in 2002 at cask strength of 58.6%, one of the earlier domestic Japanese releases from what would later become the distillery's archived stock.
Even at 12 years, the combination of Golden Promise malt, small-pot-still distillation and an Oloroso sherry cask delivers the deep dried-fruit and dark-spice character typical of Karuizawa. Stewed prune, warm Christmas-cake spice and a leathery grip are all present and direct at the natural strength. A younger vintage by Karuizawa standards, it offers a view of how those flavours present before the further decades of wood integration that the older expressions carry.
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