Karuizawa 1984 30 Year Old Artifice 013 Cask 5410 (Bottled 2015) Ex-Sherry Cask no box 700ml

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Forming part of the Artifices range by La Maison Du Whisky launched in 2015, this bottle is a 1984 Vintage Karuizawa and features the artwork of Singaporean artist Warren Khong.
The whisky itself is a 30-year-old single (ex-sherry) casked malt which was distilled in November 1984 and bottled in October 2015 at 57.7% vol

Karuizawa is one of the legendary whisky distilleries in Japan. It was founded in 1955 and situated on a beautiful vineyard in Asama of Karuizawa where is also a famous summer palace to Japanese.

Karuizawa is the smallest distillery in Japanese but its ambition is big. Karuizawa adopted the top standard in making of whisky. It used the famous barley Golden Promise, distilled in small batch and aged their spirit in finest Spanish sherry casks that made Karuizawa malt perfection in quality.

Although all these uncompromising principles made Karuizawa malt the masterpiece, it was irony that its persistence was unsustainable commercially at that time as the market was not ready to accept such a premium Japanese malt. Karuizawa distillery was stopped production in 2000 and completely closed in 2011.

Karuizawa’s old stocks are now the most precious and rarest Japanese malt ever existing in the market. It is foreseeable that Karuizawa malt, such a great, rare and classic but diminishing whisky will definitely becoming the treasures exclusively for the rich very soon .