Yamazaki 1990 The Cask of Yamazaki
| Category | JAPANESE |
| Distillery | Yamazaki |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | The Cask of Yamazaki |
| Vintage | 1990 |
| Bottled Year | 2008 |
| Age | 17년 |
| Cask Type | 2nd fill Spanish Oak Sherry Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 59.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | 山崎 |
| Country | Japan |
| Region | Yamazaki |
山崎
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
full amber
air Nose
bang-bang, gunpowder and struck matches! It’s the driest of them all when unreduced, going on with a little rubber and leather as well as whiffs of earth, humus, mushrooms… One of the well-known variants of what can come out of a sherry cask. With water: all on dried mushrooms, tobacco and gunpowder. It’s really extreme in its own genre
restaurant Palate
another smashing Yamazaki, ultra-powerful, maybe a little bitter and rubbery but yet again, it’s almost un-swallowable without water. Let’s not take any chances. With water: high extraction! Why ex-sherry Japanese and ex-sherry Scotch do not taste the same at all, I don’t know. There must be a secret somewhere, or the meanings of ‘sherry cask’ are completely different in both countries. I’ll have to ask Dave Broom… Dave, are you reading this? Anyway, this is good, with a very sweet and spicy oakiness. There
timer Finish
long, more on orange marmalade and ginger, which isn’t an unusual finish in Japanese whiskies
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