Karuizawa - Japan's Sleeping Giant
It is something of an irony that the founding father of Japanese whisky, Shinjiro Torii, intended for Japanese whisky to be a spirit that could be enjoyed by the average consumer; when in reality, the vicissitudes of recent whisky history – and the combination of increasing rarity and rising demand in recent years – have determined that Karuizawa whisky has become one of the most rarefied and expensive spirits in the world...