Yamazaki 1992 The Owner's Cask
| Category | JAPANESE |
| Distillery | Yamazaki |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1992 |
| Bottled Year | 2010 |
| Age | 15년 |
| Cask Type | Barrel |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 61.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Japan |
| Region | Yamazaki |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
pale mahogany
air Nose
this is not whisky, it’s plain and pure sherry, a great, dry sherry (amontillado?). So bags of walnuts, dried mushrooms and touches of curry powder, then more chocolate, coffee and tobacco, with once again a ‘woody’ smokiness. Quite extreme in a certain way and complex at the same time, no mean achievement! With water: more tobacco, much more tobacco (cigars!) Also some old balsamico, a little soy sauce and something faintly roasted. Botrytis?
restaurant Palate
extremely… err, extreme. Hyper-concentrated, very spicy (the experience is not unlike chewing a cigar), infused… Yet kind of chiselled and certainly not ‘fattish’ like other sherry monsters can be. Bitter oranges start to dominate the whole after a few seconds. With water: I feel more oak, as if it was from some kind of sherry-treated new butt. Some red berries coming out as well, raspberries…
timer Finish
long, dry/spicy and fruity at the same time. A slightly strange but wonderful kind of balance