Kurayoshi Sherry Cask Pure Malt

Founded in 1910, Matsui Shuzo is located in the Tottori Prefecture, northwest of Kyoto and northeast of Hiroshima, on the shore of the Sea of Japan. Over 14% prefecture is a natural park, packed with lush vegetation, rugged coastlines, rivers, lakes and most notably, Mount Daisen, which provides the prized groundwater used in all Matsui expressions. Matsui Shuzo is historically known in japan as both a Sake brewery and Shochu distillery and is now known the world over for its whisky production thanks to the Kurayoshi Distillery. Like many great world whisky producers, Kurayoshi subsidized the growth of their distillation facilities by mastering the art of blending and maturing spirits. Matsui Shuzo now oversees production of a number of whiskies - from Japanese Single Malt whisky produced in-house to blended sourced whiskies from undisclosed local and global distilleries.

This is a Pure malt aged in Ex-Sherry Casks. Pure Malt is Japan's version of a 'Vatted' or 'Blended' Malt. A marriage of various sherry aged whiskies, with no age statementon the bottle. But it is presumed to be between 6 & 8 years old.

Nose - Graham cracker, honeyed oats, browned butter.

Palate - Red berry crumble, stewed fruit, honey with hints of cigar ash

Finish - Again the Graham cracker returns, oily honey and lingering sot finish.