Description
The mountain town of Karuizawa is situated on a high plain at the base of active volcano, Mount Asama, in the heart of Japan's mainland. In 1956, the wine and spirits giant, Daikoku Budoshu, expanded their already established empire there by building a distillery with the onus of producing a single malt to be utilised in the company's blends. They christened it 'Ocean'. 1958 saw a freer importatio ... The Karuizawa 40 Year Old Blue Geisha is a highly sought-after Japanese Single Malt Whisky, distilled in 1974 and bottled in 2014. It is part of the renowned Geisha Series and was matured in a Sherry Butt. The original Karuizawa distillery, known for its small-scale, high-quality production, closed in 2000 and was demolished in 2016, making its remaining bottlings extremely rare and collectible.