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$7500
Distilled at the now-closed Karuizawa site in Nagano Prefecture in 1981 and aged 30 years in Ex-Bourbon before a European market release at 59.6% cask strength, showing the vanilla and orchard fruit that American oak draws from the distillery’s small pot still spirit.
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Description
Karuizawa, a single malt distillery in Nagano Prefecture under Mercian, closed in 2000, and its Ex-Bourbon aged casks occupy a quieter corner of the distillery's legacy alongside the more numerous sherry releases. This single cask was distilled in 1981, matured for 30 years, and released in 2011 for the European market.
Thirty years in Ex-Bourbon wood develops vanilla, dried orchard fruit, honey and a gentle American oak spice that is typical of long-matured Karuizawa in American wood. Without further cask detail, the maturation follows this expected pattern. At 59.6% cask strength, bottled by the distillery's custodians, it is a European market release from a Japanese ghost distillery whose dwindling supply has made each individual cask a document of what Nagano single malt production once was.
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