NV The Yamazaki Sherry Cask - 2016 Release (48%)
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Tasting notes
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%.
Critic scores
Jim Murray, Whisky Bible
About the producer
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.