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Fourteen years in Ex-Bourbon followed by a Grappa Cask finish set this single cask Hanyu apart from the distillery’s more classically sherried releases, offering dried grape skins, light spirit and vanilla from the closed Saitama site at full cask strength.
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Description
Hanyu distillery in Saitama Prefecture closed in 2000, and the casks rescued by Ichiro Akuto were bottled across a wide range of finish styles that reflected his experimental approach to the inherited stock. This single cask from the 2000 vintage was matured in Ex-Bourbon for the bulk of its 14-year life before completing its journey in a Grappa Cask, then bottled in 2014 at 59.9% for the Japanese market.
Grappa cask finishing is unusual in the Hanyu catalogue and brings a continental European influence: dried grape skins, a faint spirit note and a herbal edge layer over the vanilla and toasted grain from the bourbon maturation. The result is drier and more angular than the sherry-finished expressions from the same distillery, giving an insight into the stylistic range that Hanyu's varied cask programme could produce even from the same base vintage.
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