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Distilled at Karuizawa in 1995 and drawn from a single 225-litre Japanese red wine cask after 23 years in Nagano’s mountain cold, this cask strength single malt offers dark cherry, dried fig and a savoury leather edge in a release made for a single event.
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Karuizawa was a tiny single malt distillery at the foot of Mt. Asama in Nagano Prefecture, run by Mercian and built on small pot stills and an unusually high proportion of Golden Promise barley. It distilled from 1956 until it closed in 2000 and was demolished in 2016, leaving a finite body of casks now regarded among the most coveted in Japan. This bottling carries the 1995 vintage, matured for 23 years and released for a single event as Cask 5038, under the name The Crowning Cask.
The maturation vessel was a compact 225-litre Japanese red wine cask, a departure from Karuizawa's dominant sherry-cask character, lending dark berry fruit, dried cherry and a vinous depth alongside the distillery's typical leather and dark spice. Bottled at 69% as a single cask expression, it is a rare glimpse of the distillery working outside its celebrated Oloroso register.
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