Kanosuke – 2022 Limited Edition Single Malt Cask Strength (70cl, 59%)

Kanosuke 2022 Limited Edition is a Japanese single malt bottled at cask strength, 59%, in a 70cl bottle. It is non-chill-filtered and reflects the distillery's idea of "Mellow Land, Mellow Whisky". It was distilled in 2017-19 from unpeated malt, using all three of the distillery's pot stills. The whisky was aged in several kinds of oak barrel and blended after three years of maturation, with sherry casks as the key component and rich sherry cask aromas to the fore. It is reddish amber in colour. The nose offers lemon tea, honey, ume plum and Japanese cinnamon, the palate dried berries, coffee candy and old wood, and the finish is spicy with a lingering bittersweetness.