輕井澤 Karuizawa 50 Year Old LMDW Japonisme Casks #2372 + 8636 62.4 abv 1965 (1 BT 70cl, 2 BT 5cl)

輕井澤 Karuizawa 50 Year Old LMDW Japonism Casks #2372 + 8636 62.4 abv 1965

Cask #2372 + 8636, cask type: Bourbon + Sherry, distilled in 1965, bottled in 2016 for the 60th Anniversary of La Maison Du Whisky, bottle #08 of 60, includes 5cl miniature sample bottles of both casks, level: very top shoulder, original booklet and prints, original presentation case very slightly scuffed and worn, remnants of parafilm on wax capsules of miniatures, paper over capsule slightly frayed

This Karuizawa 1965 was bottled in 2016 to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of La Maison Du Whisky. The Parisian retailer is the distributor of Number One Drinks in France and have released many of their own exclusive bottlings from this long-closed Japanese distillery. The pinnacle of LMDW’s Karuizawa releases is undoubtedly this collection of three 1965 vintage bottlings.

Each of these three 1965 Karuizawa bottles is different: The first was aged in a single Sherry cask, the second in a single Bourbon barrel, while the third, the Karuizawa “Japonisme”, is a vatting of the Bourbon and Sherry casks together. Each was aged for a minimum of 50 years before bottling. Not only is the liquid exceedingly scarce, but the packaging equally as exquisite.

1 bt 70cl, 2 bt 5cl (opc)

LYING IN GREENFORD, MIDDLESEX Offered Duty Paid

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