Karuizawa - 40 Year Old (1977) Single Cask #4139

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Karuizawa - 40 Year Old (1977) Single Cask #4139

LOT #39005

11500.00

£11,500.00 €13,318.15$16,044.80

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Sold 24/05/2020

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Lot Information

Country: Japan
Distillery status: Closed
Type: Single Malt Whisky
Age: 40
Bottles Produced: 332
Size: 70cl
Delivery weight: 2.00kg
Strength: 64.9%

About the distillery

Karuizawa distillery was a Japanese whisky distillery. It was located at Miyota, a town on the southern slopes of an active complex volcano, Mount Asama, in Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Established in 1955, the distillery began production in 1956. It was owned by Mercian Corporation and was the smallest in Japan. It was mothballed in 2000, and closed in 2011; the land on which it had stood was sold in 2012.

Other Information

This 40 year old single cask is a sensational whisky from the Karuizawa distillery which stopped production almost 20 years ago.

This exclusive single cask bottle has had a long maturation being distilled in 1977, aged in a single sherry butt and then bottled after 40 years in the cask in 2017.

With only 332 bottles available, this release is extremely rare.

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Due to the various ages of bottles and their seals, condition of liquid is at the buyer's discretion and no claim can be lodged against leakage in transit.