NV Karuizawa 38yo - Pearl Geisha (62.1%)
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Releases of this calibre are global news and securing exclusivity for F+R clients is truly ground-breaking. Quite simply, the pedigree of this Japanese whisky could not be higher. Karuizawa 38 Year Old: Pearl Geisha represents the fifth release in the legendary Geisha series. It’s a series which has chartered the meteoric rise in popularity of Japan’s most coveted single malt. Every Geisha release is special and sells out in hours of release and this has all the hallmarks to make it perhaps the most sought after in the entire series. Bottled on the 17th of September 2018, this spent an incredible 38 years in cask, making it the oldest whisky yet in this highly collectable series. With only 172 bottles from single ex-sherry cask #4348, it goes without saying that this is extremely limited. Bottled by Elixir Distillers, the provenance and reputation is unquestionable and every bottle is proof tagged for authenticity and individually numbered by engraving. The usual process of allocating such oversubscribed releases is by the lottery of a ballot, with the odds of securing a bottle firmly stacked against you, so we are thrilled to be able to offer this exclusively to F+R clients today.
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About the producer
Karuizawa is an increasingly rare Japanese single malt from a permanently closed distillery. When Karuizawa was built in 1955, the goal was to create a Japanese whisky in the Scottish tradition. In the mid-1950s, that meant Sherry-aged whiskies like The Macallan.