Whisky Karuizawa Geisha Series Bourbon Cask 8897 29 years old 1984
The Karuizawa Bourbon Cask 8897 29 Year Old is an amber Japanese whisky from the 1984 vintage, produced by Karuizawa. This expression from the Geisha Series is a single malt drawn from a single bourbon cask, no. 8897. Bottled at cask strength of 53.9% ABV, it belongs to a duo released for the 2014 Whisky Show, with the other version having been matured in a sherry cask.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (70cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Amber
- Pays
- Japon
- Région
- Japon
- Producteur / Domaine
- Karuizawa
- Cuvée
- Bourbon Cask
- Millésime
- 1984
Karuizawa
Karuizawa refers here to the former Japanese malt whisky distillery located in Miyota, in Nagano Prefecture, at the foot of Mount Asama. Built in 1955 to produce malt whisky intended primarily for the ‘Ocean’ blends, it ceased all distillation at the end of 2000. Bottlings marketed under this name therefore come from historical stocks distilled prior to this closure.
- Owner
- Karuizawa
Histoire du domaine
The historic Karuizawa distillery was built in 1955 by Daikoku Budoshu, near Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture. Its first spirits were produced in 1956 using four copper pot stills. At that time, it produced malt whisky intended primarily for blends under the Ocean brand. In 1962, its owner became part of the Sanraku-Ocean group, a company which subsequently took the name Mercian in 1990. In the 1980s, Mercian also began marketing Karuizawa whisky as a single malt. Faced with a decline in the Japanese whisky market, distillation ceased on 31 December 2000 and the distillery has not resumed operations. Mercian became part of the Kirin Group in 2007. In 2011, the 364 remaining Karuizawa casks were sold to Number One Drinks, which continued to bottle some of these stocks. The site of the former distillery was sold in 2012, and the equipment was dismantled in 2016. A new distillery, Karuizawa Whisky Co., separate from the former Mercian facility, began distilling in Karuizawa in 2022.
