Collector Details
The expression commonly called Takara Red debuted in Japan in late 1990. Although officially marketed as Blanton’s Single Barrel, its red outer box gave collectors a convenient way to distinguish it from the original expression. It was positioned alongside the original bottling as a longer-aged Japanese-market selection.
A distinctive Japanese-language neck label was introduced in mid-1991. Its characters, ウイスキー, translate as “whiskey.” The expression is aged approximately eight years, and the bottle label has a lighter, cream-colored appearance.
