Karuizawa 1981 Single Cask - Number One Drinks Company
| Category | JAPANESE |
| Distillery | Karuizawa |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | Single Cask - Number One Drinks Company |
| Vintage | 1981 |
| Bottled Year | 2009 |
| Age | 31년 |
| Cask Type | Sherry Puncheon |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 59.1% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Japan |
| Region | Karuizawa |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
잔을 한 차례 흔들면 1981년 빈티지의 짙은 마호가니 빛이 잔 벽을 두꺼운 알코올 다리로 흘러내린다. 잔을 코끝에 가져가면 셰리 펀천이 입힌 말린 자두, 흑설탕, 가죽의 향이 강하게 들이친다. 한 모금을 머금으면 31년 숙성과 59.1도가 빚어낸 다크 초콜릿과 시가 박스가 입천장을 묵직하게 채운다. 사라진 카루이자와 디스틸러리의 마지막 숨결이 마른 향신료와 함께 오래 머무른다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
coppery amber
air Nose
you immediately get the impression that this was a good idea, you have this rather luscious and easy fruitiness emerging from the collision of bourbon and sherry. And ‘easiness’ is a rare thing with Karuizawa I would say. Lots of exotic fruit jams, rare hardwoods, aged teas and a pretty sublime and heady rancio. Wee touches of rose syrup and sultana. Beautiful! With water: really elegant now and full of sticky dark fruits like dates and fig jam. Some miso, treacle pudding and some kind of smoked mint tea
restaurant Palate
big, typically spicy and powerful but also showing a degree of harmony and restraint. Coconut curry, rosewater, lychee, lime jelly, five spice, lightly smoked paprika, chai tea and many dried and crystalised exotic fruits. There’s also a pretty deep earthiness with touches of old school herbal cough medicines and bit of peppery peat smoke. With water: again with this wonderful coconut aspect, more coconut milk on top of smoked cereals, herbal and exotic teas, umami broths, more paprika, dried lime peel, incense and pot pourri. Superb! Really reminiscent in some ways of these pre-war Speyside malts that G&M was issuing with abundance in the 1980s
timer Finish
long and full of incense, spices, sandalwood, herbal peat smoke, lightly sooty tones and still lots of vivid umami and rancio