Karuizawa-1981-#2084-Founder's Cask Distilled 30th July 1981, bottled July 2012. A cask handfully selected by the directors of Number One Drinks Company. Distilled at Karuizawa Distillery. One of 347 bottles. Cask no. 2084. In original taped carton. Good label with minor scuffing. Level: 2.8cm below foil. - "...Nose: this is completely different from the Yamazakis, and yet it's massively sherried. It's much drier in fact, more mineral in a way, with a lot of 'guns that just shot' – unless that's one single huge machine gun - at first nosing, and once that's gone away, splendid notes of cigar humidor, cocoa, soy sauce, balsam and dried porcinis. My kind. With water: the machine gun is back, as well as the cigars. Smoking a Cuban double-corona in front of a huge humidor. An open humidor, of course. Mouth (neat): we're closer to the Yamazaki this time. Feels rather less 'engineered', with probably more very tiny flaws, but also a much bigger complexity." (4 stars-Whiskyfun) 「......香氣：與山崎的出品全然不同，雖然雪莉桶的味道也很濃郁。這酒其實更為濃烈，有更多礦物味，像剛開的槍，聞第一下就像一把機關槍，但那氣味瞬即消散，有雪茄盒、可可、醬油、香脂樹與牛肝菌乾的美妙氣息。加水喝：這支機關槍又回來了，還有雪茄，像在一個雪茄盒前抽一根古巴雪茄；當然，那雪茄盒是打開的。口感（淨飲）：這次是較接近山崎了，感覺『設計』比較少，而可能有較多微小的缺陷，但其複雜度也更大。」（Whiskyfun：四星） 700ml. Single Malt., 60.8% volume. 1 bottle