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Wakatsuru Shuzo follows its history back to 1862, when a purpose bottling works was set up in the town of Tonami, in Toyama prefecture and has been making whisky since 1952 at their Saburomaru refinery (yet just for a couple of months every year). All the malt they distil is intensely peated (50ppm), an irregularity for Japanese whisky, and matured in scorched ex-whiskey and refill Yamanashi wine containers from the days when Wakatsuru Shuzo fiddled with port wine. The refinery stood out as truly newsworthy in 2016 when they discharged the most seasoned single malt Japanese whisky at any point packaged at 55 years of age.
The 1990 single malt is one off discharge and the last articulations under the first Sun Shine mark, with the new ‘Saburomaru’ line saved for single malts articulations subsequently forward. An erratic packaging constrained to 500 jugs, this multi year-old single malt is packaged at container quality and arrives in a porcelain decanter with wood show cas