NV The Yamazaki Sherry Cask - 2016 Release (48%)
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Nose: I was thinking: “I could nose this all day”… about half an hour ago… The richest, cleanest, most intense sherry with just enough tannin to poke its way through and ensure a more solid, spicy, platform around which the bounteous fruit hang. Taste: dense, both from the rich, full-bodied distillate as well as the sherry concentrate. Imagine a fruitcake reduced and reduced again and then you have some idea what is going on here: there is not just intense grape at work but juicy dates, over-ripe figs and molasses enough to power a W C Fields sketch… Finish: not sure where the middle ends and the finish begins. Certainly dries as the tannins gather further momentum but always fruit residue, withered and intense, is in close company. Balance: a work of art. The oils, though are markedly younger in style that the imperious 2013 edition. 48%.
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Jim Murray, Whisky Bible
Jim Murray, Whisky Bible
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Nose: when they say sherry. They are not joking: huge oloroso signature, nutty, thick, dry, as rounded as a snooker ball. A nose that was not uncommon in the warehouses of Scotland three decades ago, but now as rare as.. well, an unsulphured sherry butt… Taste: every bit as silky as the nose promises. The sugars, spices, plum, walnut cake and moist Melton Hunt Cake combine for something rather special. Finish: long, juicy dates, more walnuts, sultanas as big as a small planet… a light, teasing spice. Balance: one of the first sherry casks I have seen form Japan not in any way, shape or form touched by sulphur for a very long time. It is as if the oloroso cask was still have filled with the stuff when they filled with Yamazaki spirit. If anyone wants to find out roughly what the first Macallan 10-year-old I had in 1975 tasted like, then grab a bottle of this. 48%.
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Yamazaki is arguably the most well-known Japanese whisky. It was the first distillery built in Japan, and has produced some of the finest whiskies in the world. Shinjiro Torii founded the Yamazaki distillery near Kyoto in 1923.