Suntory Yamazaki 2012 Bourbon Barrel (700ml / 48%)

Suntory Yamazaki 2012 Bourbon Barrel Single Malt Japanese Whisky (700ml / 48%)

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ONLY 1 AVAILABLEFREE POST Australia Wide700ml / 48% ABV (no box included)A delicious Yamazaki released in 2012. This was aged entirely in first fill bourbon barrels, and was a limited edition...

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ONLY 1 AVAILABLE

FREE POST Australia Wide

700ml / 48% ABV (no box included)

A delicious Yamazaki released in 2012. This was aged entirely in first fill bourbon barrels, and was a limited edition of just 3,000 bottles.

Tasting Notes (whiskyforeveryone.blogspot.com.au)

On first nosing there are lots of cereal notes - shredded wheat, malting floors, Japanese tea, mashed potatoes, Rusks. Along side all this there’s also a nice sweet citrus fruit aroma lending a nice balance, a bit like lime cordial and chocolate limes. After a while it gets fruitier and sweeter with a little breathing with aromas of apples, pears, bananas, cherries, refresher sweets, custard powder and milk chocolate.

On the palate, there’s some lovely big first fill bourbon barrel flavours. Starting with some sweet and fruity flavours - Banoffee pie, white chocolate, bubblegum, Belgian tripel beer. The palate gradually gets a little more bitter, oaky and hot with pepper and cloves. The finish is long and tannic with a nice bittersweet blackberry note. Excellently balanced. Lots of estery flavours of fruits and sweet things balanced by an equally large dollop of drying austerity from the oak.