Karuizawa Cask Strength

During the past week, La Maison du Whisky announced the sale of five new Karuizawa Cask Strength expressions, and some of them have gone on sale already.

They are part of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, which feature landscape prints by the famous Japanese artist Hokusai. They depict Mount Fuji from different locations in various weather conditions. The series was presented at Whisky Live Taipei in 2015 but I don’t recall any of them to be (officially) sold in Europe so far.

The liquid inside is drawn from casks of 1999 and 2000 vintages, bottled...