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Ex-Bourbon maturation followed by a Japanese Oak Mizunara finish gives this single cask 2000 vintage Hanyu its distinctive sandalwood and incense lift alongside the vanilla and fresh grain notes typical of the Saitama distillery, bottled at 58.6%.
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Hanyu in Saitama Prefecture, closed in 2000 after producing single malt for Toa Shuzo since the early 1980s, is the ancestor of Chichibu distillery, founded by Ichiro Akuto in 2008. This single cask from the 2000 distillation was matured in Ex-Bourbon before receiving a Mizunara Japanese Oak finish, then bottled at 58.6% for global release in 2010.
Mizunara is the signature cask of Japanese whisky: porous, difficult to cooper and slow to give, it imparts sandalwood, incense and a faint coconut note that sits distinctly atop the bourbon-derived vanilla and light grain base. The finish here is not a long secondary maturation but a targeted addition, and at cask strength the layering is clear. It stands as one of the more Japan-specific expressions from Hanyu's finite legacy stock, anchored in a cask combination that could only come from a Japanese site.
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