Saburomaru – IV The Emperor 2020/2024 Heavily Highland Peated (70cl, 48%)
US$179.00
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- Distillery
- Saburomaru
- Region
- Toyama
- Type
- Single Malt Whisky
- Bottle Size
- 70cl
- ABV
- 48%
Saburomaru IV The Emperor is a Japanese single malt from the Saburomaru distillery in Toyama prefecture, distilled in 2020 and bottled in 2024 at 48%. The release ran to 12,500 bottles, and the label shows a paper-cut design by the artist Yukie Kano, taking the fourth card of the Major Arcana as its subject.
The malt was dried with Highland peat at 50 ppm and fermented in the wooden washback introduced at the distillery in 2020. It is non-chill-filtered and has no added colour.
The nose offers ripe apple and pineapple with vanilla, oak, oven ash and beeswax. The palate is soft and slightly oily, with ashy, sweetish peat smoke, and the finish keeps ash and wood in play.
Tasting Notes
Ripe apple and pineapple, vanilla, woody cask notes, weighty smoke, oven ash, pineapple candy and beeswax, with apricot and chestnut behind
Soft, balanced and slightly oily; ashy, sweetish peat smoke carrying ripe apple, vanilla, a little apricot and a touch of chestnut
Somewhat stronger, with ash and wood staying present
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