Karuizawa 1960 whisky

Bonhams, Hong Kong 28 August

ASK FOR A Karuizawa – any year – at the best-stocked bar you know and you’ll get a knowing but apologetic shrug, if you’re lucky. We can guarantee your local Oddbins won’t be able to help. The fiery whisky made in the shadow of Mount Asama in Japan is so jealously guarded that even if you were to find an establishment with a bottle, the staff might refuse to serve it; since the Karuizawa distillery closed in 2001, its product has been treated as a precious finite resource. The scarcity of the stuff is only part of the reason for its cultish popularity. To listen to those who have sampled it, you’d think it has magical powers. ‘Lo whisky made today resembles it,’ claims the novelist Lawrence Osborne, who travelled across…

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