Karuizawa 1992 Bottled 2007 Cask 3330

Karuizawa 8 Year Old

Karuizawa 8 @Day 0, 2012-04-16 A 50ml bottle from a small lot of samples I received recently (April 2012). As with all samples from the seller, bottles are decanted in full so this is a "fresh" sample. Nose: Japanese plum, honey, grapefruit, melon, fragrant peat smoke - like thin tendrils of burning incense sticks. Something else that...

Score 75/100

Karuizawa 1999 Noh 13 Year K&L Exclusive, cask #869

To celebrate receiving my order of the first casks of Karuizawa sold in the US courtesy of K&L in California, I cracked open my bottle of the 1999/2013 13 Year Old Noh series. I really enjoyed it last night, and thought about it during the day, but wanted to have another session with it before scoring the notes. I stopped taking notes mid-way...

Score 94/100

Karuizawa 1969/2012 42 Year Old Cask #8183

This is my 200th review on connosr, and I believe I have a single malt whisky to introduce that is worthy of the occasion. Given my infatuation with Japanese whisky I decided to spend some time with a large sample of a 1969 Karuizawa that was given to me by a rather generous friend. I had tasted this before, during a master class with Dave Broom...

Score 89/100

Karuizawa 1983 28 Year Old Noh Cask #7576

I actually had the second half of my sample bottle last night after all the Hanyu. The first half was very good, though a bit unexpected with lots of ginger and chili. I realized that my palate was just 'off' that night, so I decided to try again. This expression came out earlier in the year and sold out very, very quickly (minutes for a few...

Score 95/100