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Dark chocolate, stewed plum and a cedar-wood depth from 27 years in an Oloroso sherry butt give this 1987 Karuizawa single cask an uncommon intensity, bottled at cask strength for Germany from the closed Nagano distillery.
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Description
Few Japanese whiskies carry the weight of history that a vintage Karuizawa does. The Nagano Prefecture distillery, run by Mercian and closed in 2000, produced small quantities of malt that spent decades in sherry casks before the world noticed. This single cask comes from the 1987 vintage, 27 years in an Oloroso sherry butt, and was bottled in 2014 at a cask strength of 58.4% for the German market.
Seven years longer in wood than many of its peers, this cask accumulated layer upon layer of dark chocolate, stewed plum and leather, anchored by a cedar-wood and dried-herb depth that comes with long sherry ageing. The Golden Promise barley used at Karuizawa gives a distinctive texture, firm and malt-forward even under the sherry concentration, and the natural ABV retains intensity without sacrificing the fruity top note.
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