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Karuizawa 1960 57 Year Old Single Cask
Distillery: Karuizawa
Region: Nagano, Japan
Type: Japanese Single Malt
Age: 57 years
Score: 96.9/100
Average Price: $850,000
Tasting Notes
Dark chocolate, incense, exotic spices, dried mango, sandalwood, extraordinary Oriental complexity.
Why It's Ranked #6
From the closed Karuizawa distillery — the most coveted name in Japanese whisky collecting. This 1960 single cask spent 57 years in Sherry wood before bottling. With the distillery closed since 2000, no further stock will ever be produced.
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