Wakatsuru Saburomaru Saburomaru 2019

Saburomaru 2019 continues Wakatsuru's annual vintage single malt series from the Saburomaru distillery in Toyama prefecture, released after 3 years of maturation. Each edition tracks the character of a specific distillation year through the distillery's peated, cast-metal-still production. The 2019 vintage was bottled in 2022 at cask strength 48%, targeting the Japanese domestic market.

Ex-Bourbon maturation provides the structural backbone, lending vanilla and light caramel to what is characteristically an assertive, peat-driven spirit. The cask detail for this vintage is unspecified beyond Ex-Bourbon, so the wood's contribution is the expected vanilla and light toasted oak frame. Saburomaru's house style, built on heavy peat and a unique still design, tends toward a smoky, full-bodied profile even at this early age, and the 2019 expression is typical of that character.