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Selected by The Whisky Exchange and bottled from a single Ex-Bourbon cask after 16 years, this cask strength Hanyu from the 2000 vintage draws on the distillery’s typical cereal, vanilla and light fruit character, released for an event market at 56.1%.
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Hanyu distillery in Saitama Prefecture closed in 2000, and the casks distilled that year represent the site's final production. Cask 362, a 16-year maturation, was selected by The Whisky Exchange and bottled in 2016 at 56.1% cask strength for an event allocation, placing it among the latest official single cask releases from the 2000 vintage.
The cask detail is unrecorded for this bottling, but 16 years on Ex-Bourbon spirit in the typical Hanyu style would produce the distillery's characteristic vanilla, toasted cereal and gentle dried apple note. The extended maturation and the respected independent bottler selection signal a cask that had developed well over its time. The Whisky Exchange provenance and the event-market status both point to a release made with a specific collector audience in mind, drawing on the standing of the closed Saitama site.
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