
Product Description
A sublime first-fill sherry cask of Karuizawa 1982 selected especially by TWE for our 10th Anniversary. We designed the geisha label ourselves, so we're pretty proud of it. Rich and full-bodied, with raisin cake and flinty flavours. This missed a Gold Medal at the Malt maniacs Awards 2009 by a single point.
Product Facts
Product Facts
Bottler
Distillery Bottling
Series
TWE 10th Anniversary
Vintage
Bottling Date
2009
Country
Japan
Cask Type
First Fill Sherry
Cask Number
2748
Colouring
Yes
Karuizawa 1982 TWE 10th Anniversary Sherry Cask
70cl / 56.1%
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Tasting Notes
Tasting notes by Whiskyfun (Serge Valentin)
Colour
Amber.
Nose
A different planet here, this more sumptuous and wonderfully balanced, with many ‘candied’ aromas, nougat, café latte, raspberry liqueur, oranges, Nutella (not kidding), then old rancio, walnuts… Fantastic, even at such high strength. With water: wow! Earth and mint, then various fresh mushrooms (no mouldiness). Even truffles (but not these, err, sulphury notes that sometimes come with truffles).
Mouth (neat)
It’s a tad less rounded now, and probably more vinous than on the nose, but the earthiness is superb, as well as all the notes of herbs and teas. Mint, hawthorn, lemon balm… All that coated with a sauce made out of prunes and oranges. With water: more oak but it’s a flavourful oak, adding many spicy and vegetal notes that aren’t so common in whisky. Savory? Mother-of-thyme?.
Finish
Long, oak-coated thus maybe a tad dry-as-dust but it actually works greatly, with quite some mint and even a little eucalyptus counterbalancing the whole in the aftertaste.
Comments
A rich, mature yet restless dram. I scored it 91 points at the MM Awards so I won’t change the rating, but I might have gone a tad higher… SGP:562 - 91 points.
Comment
This one almost fetched gold at the MM Awards 2009 (high silver).
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Customer Reviews
very good, you must try.....
I tried this bottle this week: a wonderfull nose! The taste needs some time and some water, but after a while you got a superb oaky and spicy taste which lingers on and on. In my opinion, a delicious sherry dram! Very strange this one wasn't sold out in a couple of days...