Sakurao Japanese Single Malt Sauternes Cask 50% 700ml Cabernet Sauvignon

Sakurao Japanese Single Malt Sauternes Cask 50% 700ml Cabernet SauvignonA Japanese single malt from the Sakurao Distillery in Hiroshima. Made entirely from malted barley, double distilled, then matured in bourbon casks and finished for 18 months in Sauternes wine casks. Nose: Honey, apple, cinnamon. Palate: Custard, banana and pear. Finish: Long, marked by honey and ripe fruits. Bottled uncoloured and non chill filtered at 50% ABV. 700ml.

The palate mimics the nose with walnuts

or as a digestif on ice

Gaston's eldest son

between the sea and the Iblean mountains

Fruit was hand picked over the space of 10 days

he explains

Great length

A gently sweet moelleux with residual sugar around 70 grams per litre making this a wine that will match with so many desserts rather than competing with them for sweetness

and forest floor

It expresses the full elegance and long finish of the Grande Champagne

then evolves to pure cane juice thus evoking its raw material

It is deep and complex with dried fruits and spice elements like cardamom and allspice which complement elegantly the right touch of sweetness that comes from slowly cooked mature agave