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Peated Asaka distillate from a 2019 vintage, matured four years in a single Ex-Bourbon cask in Fukushima and bottled at 63.5% for a distillery event, showing smoke integrating with the young Fukushima distillery’s fruit-forward base.
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Yamazakura Asaka Peated Cask #19152 is a single-cask, cask-strength bottling from Sasanokawa Shuzo's Asaka distillery in Fukushima prefecture. Distilled from peated malt in 2019 and bottled in 2023 at four years old, it is one of a series of event releases that demonstrate how Asaka's peated distillate matures alongside the distillery's unpeated single malt programme.
The maturation is in Ex-Bourbon oak, which softens and sweetens the peat rather than amplifying it: vanilla and dried orchard fruit from the barrel work in counterpoint to the smoke, a development pattern typical of Asaka's peated casks. At 63.5% ABV and an event-only release, the bottling rewards dilution to reveal the interplay between Fukushima peat character and four years of American oak influence.
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