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About This Whisky
A full set of the four Karuizawa Shibari bottles: 35-year-old sherry-matured single malt distilled in 1981, each bottle tied by hand with coloured rope in a shibari knot pattern.
Tasting Profile
- Nose: Dark sherry, sultana and dates, with leather, cedar and a trace of incense.
- Palate: Rich and concentrated at full strength.
- Finish: Long, with dried red fruit, tobacco and drying spice.
Serving & Food
If you open the set, taste the four side by side, starting with the black, with aged Parmigiano between pours.
Good to Know
What strengths are they? Three at 60.6% and the black Nawa-Do at 56.5%.
What do the colours mean? They're the oldest colour words in Japanese.
Product Details
| Producer | Karuizawa (closed) |
| Country | Japan |
| Region | Miyota, Nagano |
| Cask | Sherry casks |
| Age | 35 years |
| Vintage | 1981 |
| ABV | 60.6% |
| Size | 4 x 700mL |
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About the Distillery
Daikoku Budoshu, later Mercian, built Karuizawa in Nagano in 1955, and the distillery last ran in 2000. In 2011 Number One Drinks bought the remaining 364 casks from Kirin, which had taken over Mercian in 2006.