page_title: Karuizawa distillery
hierarchical_section_title: Karuizawa distillery
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: メルシャン軽井沢美術館。ウイスキー蒸留施設の通路と樽。
context_page_description: Karuizawa distillery was a Japanese whisky distillery. It was located at Miyota, a town on the southern slopes of an active complex volcano, Mount Asama, in Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
  Established in 1955, the distillery began production in 1956. It was owned by Mercian Corporation, and was the smallest in Japan. It was mothballed in 2000, and closed in 2011; the land on which it had stood was sold in 2012.
  The remaining whiskey stock from the distillery was purchased and re-branded, then released as a series of luxury whiskies. The rarest of these is the 1960 vintage, which is on sale at US$638,000 per bottle.
context_section_description: Karuizawa distillery (軽井沢蒸溜所, Karuizawa jōryūsho) was a Japanese whisky distillery.  It was located at Miyota, a town on the southern slopes of an active complex volcano, Mount Asama, in Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
  Established in 1955, the distillery began production in 1956.  It was owned by Mercian Corporation, and was the smallest in Japan.  It was mothballed in 2000, and closed in 2011; the land on which it had stood was sold in 2012.
  The remaining whiskey stock from the distillery was purchased and re-branded, then released as a series of luxury whiskies. The rarest of these is the 1960 vintage, which is on sale at US$638,000 per bottle.
caption: The former distillery building, 2011
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