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Drawn from a Sherry Butt in 1983 and bottled 28 years later at cask strength 57.2%, this Karuizawa single cask from Nagano brings savoury depth and dark fruit alongside leather, an unusual expression from a distillery closed in 2000.
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Karuizawa operated in Nagano Prefecture from 1956 until 2000, its small pot stills and imported Golden Promise barley producing malt of pronounced character that was most often matured in Oloroso sherry casks. The distillery was demolished in 2016 and its remaining casks are now among the most finite stocks in Japanese whisky. Cask #7576 was distilled in 1983 and matured for 28 years in a Sherry Butt before being bottled in 2012 by The Whisky Exchange for the UK market at 57.2% cask strength.
The flavour profile carries the savoury, umami-touched character noted in the cask data, alongside the rich dried fruit, leather and bitter chocolate that Karuizawa's Oloroso maturation is known to produce. The full-fat sherry butt and the long Nagano ageing together create a whisky of unusual density and savoury complexity, sitting at the more distinctive end of the distillery's recorded cask range.
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