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Auction: SFW07 - Independent Bottlers Single Malt Whisky and Rum Event
Lot: 70

Karuizawa 1981 - 32 year old
70cl
57.30%
2013 Own bottling for La Maison du Whisky
Bourbon Cask Number 8461
Total 186 bottles

Color: full gold.
Nose: impressively oaky, we're wandering throughout a large carpenter's workshop and this is a very unusual and very pleasant feeling. Once these first feelings become subtler, some fudge, some quinces and a fistful of Havana cigars start to come through, together with more cellulose and cinnamon. Hints of cow stable too, tea. With water: rounder, with more sweet spices. Spicy sponge cake? A woodiness that's usually more to be found in some teas.
Mouth (neat): big and oaky again, with bags of bitter oranges too. It's rather a grassy kind of oak, quite acrid and very cinnamony, which makes it a little difficult when undiluted. A real fighter, we're very far from those vanilla bombs that pop out everywhere these days. With water: some kind of spicy apple juice! Also cinnamon and quinces.
Finish: long, still oaky, with a feeling of sawdust and tea.

Sold for
HK$10,000