SCYFOOD > Japanese Whisky Karuizawa 33 year old Toulouse Lautrec Contact Customer Service ENQUIRY Karuizawa distillery 軽井沢蒸溜所 was a Japanese whisky distillery. It was located at Miyota, a town on the southern slopes of an active complex volcano, Mount Asama, in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1955, the distillery began production in 1956. It was owned by Mercian Corporation and was the smallest in Japan. It was mothballed in 2000, and closed in 2011, The remaining whiskey stock from the distillery was purchased and re-branded, then released as a series of luxury whiskies. Karuizawa 33 year old Toulouse Lautrec. Distilled March 1980, bottled July 2013 by Karuizawa Distillery. Cask number 4556, Sherry Butt. "... A lot of camphor, cough syrup, bitter oranges, touches of Spanish ham, probably some cranberry juice, even guava juice... Another one that's pretty perfect. With water: indeed. More menthol, more liquorice, maybe more wood extracts, Finish: very long and quite terpenic. 70cl/63,5% Karuizawa 31 year old Toulouse Lautrec.
