Karuizawa 33 Years Old 1980 Cask #4556 (LMDW)

700ml / 60.3%

Single Malt

$13359

La Maison du Whisky’s selection of cask #4556, a 1980 Karuizawa sherry butt aged 33 years and bottled at 60.3% cask strength for France, the closed Nagano distillery’s signature of dark fruit, chocolate and leather in a single barrel drawn for the French market.

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SKU JP0578 Categories Japanese Single Malt, Japanese Whisky, Karuizawa, Whiskey

Description

Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture was a single malt distillery whose output was shaped by small pot stills, Golden Promise barley and a heavy reliance on Oloroso sherry casks. Cask #4556, distilled in 1980, spent 33 years in an Oloroso sherry butt before La Maison du Whisky bottled it in 2013 for France.

Three decades and more in a sherry butt delivers the full Karuizawa character: dark dried fruit, bitter chocolate, old leather and warm spice, concentrated by long maturation in quality Spanish wood. Bottled at 60.3% cask strength, the La Maison du Whisky bottling is one of several French market single casks that the independent bottler selected from the closed Nagano distillery, connecting a significant chapter of Japanese whisky history to European collectors.

Additional information

Weight

1.6 kg