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Auction: SFW64 - Fine Wine & Whisky Auction
Lot: 307

Karuizawa Founder's Cask-1981-#2084
Distilled 30th July 1981, bottled July 2012. A cask specially selected by the directors of Number One Drinks Company. Distilled at Karuizawa Distillery.
One of 347 bottles. Cask no. 2084. Good label, lightly wrinkled. Torn and separated plastic capsule.
"...Nose: this is completely different from the Yamazakis, and yet it's massively sherried. It's much drier in fact, more mineral in a way, with a lot of 'guns that just shot' – unless that's one single huge machine gun - at first nosing, and once that's gone away, splendid notes of cigar humidor, cocoa, soy sauce, balsam and dried porcinis. My kind. With water: the machine gun is back, as well as the cigars. Smoking a Cuban double-corona in front of a huge humidor. An open humidor, of course. Mouth (neat): we're closer to the Yamazaki this time. Feels rather less 'engineered', with probably more very tiny flaws, but also a much bigger complexity." (4 stars-Whiskyfun)
700ml. Single Malt., 60.8% volume.
1 bottle

Estimate
HK$20,000 to HK$26,000