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The Cask of Yamazaki 1990 Sherry Butt

alc./vol:
60%

Proof:
120°

Vintage:
1990

Aged:
8 years 4 months

Closure: Screw / Stelvin cap

Categories: Japanese Whisky, Japanese Malt whisky

Product of: Product of Japan Japan

Distilled February 1990 and bottled June 2008, this single cask strength malt was matured 8 years and 4 months in Spanish sherry cask number ON70645. Total production of 471 bottles.

Review and Tasting

Sampled on 01/09/2009

Appearance

(bottle number 415)

Aroma

Sherry laced Christmas pudding/Dundee cake served with rum and raison ice cream.

Taste

This veritable pudding of a malt keeps on giving with bitter chocolate, praline, and treacle toffee.

Aftertaste

The rich finish is appropriately dusted with bitter chocolate.

More about The Cask of Yamazaki 1990 Sherry Butt

Produced by Suntory Yamazaki Distillery

Yamazaki, Japan’s first malt whisky distillery was completed in 1924 and the malts it produces have become one of the most honoured single malt whiskies in the world.

Owned by Beam Suntory

Click to see other products by Beam Suntory

UK distribution by Maxxium UK Ltd

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