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Matured 30 years in Ex-Bourbon oak at the foot of Mt. Asama, this 1981 Karuizawa single cask from The Whisky Exchange delivers vanilla, dried coconut and tropical fruit at cask strength 57.5%, from a Nagano distillery closed in 2000.
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Karuizawa was a small distillery in Nagano Prefecture, operating at the foot of the active Mt. Asama volcano from 1956 until its closure in 2000 and demolition in 2016. Run by Mercian, it used small pot stills and an unusually high proportion of imported Golden Promise barley, producing single malts of rare intensity. This single cask expression was distilled in 1981, bottled in 2011 at 30 Years Old and released by The Whisky Exchange for an event bottling at 57.5%.
The maturation in Ex-Bourbon oak over three decades draws out vanilla cream, dried coconut, orchard fruit and a thread of warm spice that is typical of the distillery's bourbon-aged releases. Bottled from a single cask at cask strength, this is a direct expression of what Karuizawa produced in its early 1980s prime, preserved in wood through the long Nagano winters and now irreplaceable.
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