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 | 58.9% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Japan |
| Region | Karuizawa |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
가루이자와 1981이 셰리 버트에서 31년을 머문 끝에 짙은 마호가니로 잔에 가라앉아 있다. 향에서는 일본 위스키 특유의 단정함 위로 검은 자두와 가죽, 마른 무화과가 또렷이 깃들어 있다. 58.9도의 입안은 묵직하게 흘러 다크 초콜릿과 호두 껍질, 흑설탕의 단맛이 차례로 풀린다. 사라진 가루이자와가 남긴 노 시리즈의 결이 깊고 우아한 여운으로 길게 이어진다.
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