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Distilled at Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture in 1976 and aged 34 years in a first-fill Oloroso sherry butt, this single cask cask strength release for Taiwan carries the dense dark fruit and leather the closed distillery became famous for.
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Description
Karuizawa, a single malt distillery at the foot of Mt. Asama volcano in Nagano Prefecture, was owned by Mercian and closed in 2000. The distillery's heavy use of first-fill Oloroso sherry butts produced whisky of unusual depth and concentration, and this single cask, distilled in 1976 and bottled in 2010 after 34 years of maturation, is a product of exactly that approach.
A first-fill sherry butt imparts the fullest possible extraction of dried fruit, dark chocolate and tannin, and at 63.6% cask strength the whisky retains a muscular richness typical of Karuizawa's most intensively sherried output. Bottled for the Taiwan market, it stands as one of the distillery's own releases from a decade when custodians were drawing down a finite and irreplaceable stock.
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