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Vanilla, dried orchard fruit and warm cereal sweetness emerge from cask #8606, a 1983 Karuizawa single cask aged 30 years in Ex-Bourbon oak, bottled at cask strength 55.8% by The Whisky Exchange for the UK from a Nagano distillery shuttered in 2000.
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Description
Karuizawa ran from 1956 to 2000 in Nagano Prefecture, a small distillery using pot stills and imported Golden Promise barley at the foot of the active Mt. Asama volcano. Its bourbon-aged releases are rarer than its signature sherry casks and show a more open, lighter profile that is just as reflective of the site's long, cool maturation conditions. Cask #8606 was distilled in 1983, matured for 30 years in a Bourbon Cask and bottled in 2013 by The Whisky Exchange for the UK market at 55.8% cask strength.
Three decades in Ex-Bourbon oak draw out vanilla, dried apple, a touch of coconut and the soft cereal warmth of the Golden Promise base malt. The finish is long and integrated, carrying the concentration that comes from a full 30 years in Nagano's mountain climate. As a single cask bottling from a distillery that no longer exists, it is a fixed point in the history of Japanese malt whisky.
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