Description
The mountain town of Karuizawa is situated on a high plain at the base of active volcano, Mount Asama, in the heart of Japan's mainland. In 1956, the wine and spirits giant, Daikoku Budoshu, expanded their already established empire there by building a distillery with the onus of producing a single malt to be utilised in the company's blends. They christened it 'Ocean'. 1958 saw a freer importatio ... This 1980-vintage single-cask Karuizawa, bottled in 2015, was released only to attendees of The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show 2015 as a 'Dream Dram'. It is a rare Japanese single malt whisky from the sadly closed Karuizawa distillery. The back label tells a tale of Samurai Warriors stopping in Karuizawa on the Nakasendo trail.