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Distilled in 1981 at the now-demolished Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture, this single cask spent 32 years in an Ex-Bourbon barrel before La Maison du Whisky bottled it for France, showing the lighter, orchard-fruit side of a closed distillery better known for sherry.
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Karuizawa distillery, set below Mt. Asama in Nagano Prefecture and owned by Mercian, produced single malt from 1956 until closure in 2000. The site was demolished in 2016, and all remaining stock exists only in cask or bottle. This single cask, number 8461, was distilled in 1981 and matured for 32 years before being selected by La Maison du Whisky for their French allocation in 2013.
While Karuizawa's reputation rests largely on its sherry cask programme, this bottling draws from an Ex-Bourbon barrel, a smaller proportion of the distillery's output. Bourbon wood on Karuizawa's Golden Promise spirit tends to reveal a cleaner, more orchard-forward character, with vanilla and dried apple standing in place of the heavier sherry-driven fruit and leather. At 57.3% cask strength, it offers a different dimension of the same closed distillery.
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