Karuizawa 1999-2000 Vintages 36 Views Of Mt Fuji 21st Release

A part of the very sought after ‘Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji’ series released from casks of 1999 and 2000 vintage whiskies. Each of the 36 labels in the series features landscape prints created by famed Japanese artist, Hokusai representing Mount Fuji illustrated from different locations in various weather conditions.

The Sanroku-Ocean merger of 1962 brought together the Yamanshi and Karuizawa distilleries, only for the Yamanashi spirit to be deemed of awful quality. The Kawasaki grain facility would be commissioned shortly after and throughout the 1970's until the late 1980's Sanroku-Ocean utilised Kawasaki grain with Karuiazawa malt to produce high quality blends, aimed to compete with the Scottish blends of the time. The company would soon become Mercian in 1990 and continue producing whisky until 2001 when Karuiazawa was closed.

The Karuizawa name has since been associated with some of the highest valued and most prized Japanese whiskies in history. A malt whisky production style that took inspiration from distilleries like Macallan and Springbank, the single malts produced by Karuizawa were often sherry matured and quality first focused. As the distillery closed in 2001, casks have slowly made their way to Europe with Number One Drinks in the UK acquiring the vast majority of casks. With both single casks and vattings ranging from 10-50 years in age, Karuizawa has become a distillery synonmous with high quality, luxury quality whisky.