Karuizawa 1981 Noh Whisky
| Category | JAPANESE |
| Distillery | Karuizawa |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | Noh Whisky |
| Vintage | 1981 |
| Bottled Year | 2017 |
| Age | 31년 |
| Cask Type | Sherry Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 58.6% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Japan |
| Region | Karuizawa |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
잔 안에 짙은 마호가니가 두껍게 가라앉아 있다. 일본 폐쇄 증류소 카루이자와가 1981년 증류한 원액을 셰리 벗에서 서른한 해를 보낸 노 위스키 시리즈다. 코끝에는 묵은 가죽과 호두, 옅은 향나무 향이 한 겹씩 풀린다. 입에서는 무화과 시럽과 다크 초콜릿, 정향이 묵직하게 입을 채우고 58.6도의 도수가 강한 골격을 세운다. 여운에는 가죽과 옅은 시가가 깊게 머문다.
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