{"product_id":"karuizawa-52-year-old-sherry-cask-5627-1960","title":"Karuizawa 52 Year Old Sherry Cask #5627 1960","description":"Drawn from the last handful of casks laid down at the now-vanished Karuizawa distillery — closed by owners Mercian in 2001 and kept alive through independent bottler Number One Drinks Company — this release is widely regarded as the single most important bottling in modern Japanese whisky. Distilled on 1 February 1960 from a sherry hogshead and bottled on 1 January 2013 at 51.8% ABV, it spent a full 52 years maturing, making it the oldest whisky Karuizawa ever produced and, at the time, the oldest Japanese whisky ever bottled.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nOnly 41 bottles were produced, each individually named after the unique netsuke (carved wooden figure) hanging from its neck — among them \"The Cockerel,\" \"The Wanderer,\" \"The Archer,\" \"The Poet,\" and \"Zodiac Rat\" — and presented in a bespoke wooden puzzle-box case with hand-painted calligraphy labels by Soji Noshimoto. The whisky itself is described as opening with notes of \"old woods in autumn,\" leading to a palate of \"dense black fruits,\" reflecting decades of concentrated sherry-cask influence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karuizawa","offers":[{"title":"Duty Paid","offer_id":63676779954506,"sku":"HED86600","price":420000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/7696\/2634\/files\/default_drink_brown_spirits_full_2.jpg?v=1786712486","url":"https:\/\/hedonism.co.uk\/products\/karuizawa-52-year-old-sherry-cask-5627-1960","provider":"Hedonism Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}