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A full Oloroso sherry butt maturation over 17 years from a 1991 Hanyu vintage, bottled at 56.8% cask strength for a global release in 2008, delivering the dense dried fruit, dark spice and leather depth that Spanish oak extracts from the closed Saitama distillery’s spirit.
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Hanyu 17 Years Old 1991 is a single cask single malt distilled at the closed Hanyu distillery in Saitama Prefecture in 1991 and bottled in 2008 at cask strength by Ichiro Akuto. Unlike many Hanyu releases that sequence from bourbon into a finishing cask, this single cask spent its entire 17-year maturation in a Spanish oak Oloroso sherry butt, resulting in a fully sherried profile throughout.
Full sherry butt maturation over that span typically produces a deeply fruited whisky: dark plum, raisin and fig, with layers of chocolate, leather and dried spice that accumulate as the spirit draws down the wood. The Oloroso imprint here would be total rather than a finishing accent, making this one of the more heavily sherried expressions in the 1991 Hanyu vintage sequence. At 56.8% the combination of sherry richness and cask strength intensity is substantial.
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