1980s St. Mary's Loch 8 Year Old Pure Malt, 500ml, 43% #140

St. Mary's Loch 8 Years Old Pure Malt Scotch Whisky is a rare vintage bottle that symbolizes the era of "special grade whiskey" in Japan in the late 1980s. This product was imported by the prestigious Morimura Shoji Co., Ltd. and sold through Tokyu Department Store, making it a historic item that strongly reflects the gift-giving culture and trust in quality in Japan's luxury alcohol market at the time.

The product's greatest feature, as clearly stated on the label, is that it is a "pure malt" (currently legally called a blended malt), a luxurious blend of malts from multiple distilleries using only malted barley. The key malt at the core of the composition is a single malt from Deanston Distillery in Perthshire, Highlands, which forms the product's structure. In addition, malts from the Speyside region are vatted to complement the gorgeous aroma and fruity sweetness, resulting in a layered and harmonious flavor that could not be achieved from a single distillery.

The flavor profile is dominated by honey-like sweetness from the Deanston distillery and refreshing citrus aromas reminiscent of apples, comfortably layered with a smooth, waxy texture developed through aging. The fullness of the body, perhaps indicative of its eight-year aging period, is a unique allure of bottlings from the 1980s, when high-quality raw spirits were abundant, allowing one to savor the classic Scotch character not found in modern products. Including the 500ml size unique to the Japanese market at the time, this work is an extremely valuable historical archive for enthusiasts, conveying to the present the outstanding blending techniques and quality of ingredients of a lost era.

• Product name: St. Mary's Rock 8 Year Pure Malt
• Type: Malt blended whiskey
  
• Age: 8 years or more
• Capacity: 500ml
• Alcohol content: 43%
• Distillation period: Before the 1970s
• Distribution period: 1980s onwards
  
• Release price at the time: Unknown
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