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Aged 29 years in a Bourbon Cask and bottled at cask strength 54.3% by La Maison du Whisky for France, cask #8552 from Karuizawa’s 1983 vintage shows vanilla, dried tropical fruit and the gentle cereal warmth of the closed Nagano distillery.
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Karuizawa was a single malt distillery in Nagano Prefecture operating from 1956 until 2000, when it closed, followed by demolition in 2016. The distillery used small pot stills and a notably high proportion of imported Golden Promise barley, and while it is best known for its sherry-cask character, its bourbon-aged releases reveal a softer, more fruit-forward dimension of the same raw materials. Cask #8552 was distilled in 1983, aged for 29 years in a Bourbon Cask and bottled in 2013 by La Maison du Whisky for France.
At 54.3% cask strength the spirit is measured and composed, delivering vanilla, dried peach and tropical fruit with a cereal sweetness in the background that is characteristic of Golden Promise malt. The cool, consistent Nagano climate worked its way through nearly three decades in the cask, integrating the wood influence gradually into a whisky that shows maturity alongside freshness.
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