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Karuizawa Cask Strength 3rd Release

Lot: 6155818

Karuizawa Cask Strength 3rd Release

Winning Bid: £2,100
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 45 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Karuizawa
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Japan
Bottler: 
Official
Cask Type: 
Sherry Butts
Bottled Strength: 
61.7%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Karuizawa Cask Strength 3rd Release

was able to experiment with the production of a Speyside-esque product, importing the same golden promise barely used at Macallan, and sherry casks. The subsequent quality of output saw it appearing in Japan as a single malt for the first time in the 1980s. Sadly, the Japanese whisky market was not strong at the time, and Karuizawa was closed in 2001 by owners, Mercian, and eventually dismantled. Its legacy is lives on however, with its still relocated to other distilleries in Japan, but predominantly in the hugely sought-after single cask releases that began to appear in 2007, from independent bottler, Number One Drinks. It is now one of the most prestige single malts on the planet, the reverence for which only grows as the remaining stock continues to thin.

This limited bottling is a blend of the finest Sherry Butt matured single malt whiskies from Karuizawa Distillery.

3rd Release.

Bottled at cask strength.

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