That colour is fantastic, love Japanese stuff never tried any Karuizawa how comparable is it to yamazaki or nikka styles
Karuizawa is a lot meatier and flavour forward than other Japanese brands which tend towards subtlety. In Scotch terms I’d say it has shares common ground with the best Mortlachs.
Only Japanese I've ever had was nikka from the barrel, and I wasn't impressed until I got to the last glass in the bottle unfortunately. Proper curious about the likes of yamazaki and hakushu but not enough to pay what it costs to acquire a bottle
Japanese whisky stupidly expensive. I was fortunate to buy most of my bottles before the price boom. Hakushu 18 is an excellent dram.
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