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Sherried cocoa, hay and an oily, mossy depth emerge from this 1988 Hanyu single cask matured in a puncheon and bottled at cask strength 56.3% for an event release in 2006, an intriguing and complex expression from the closed Saitama distillery.
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Hanyu 18 Years Old 1988 is a single cask single malt distilled in 1988 at Hanyu in Saitama Prefecture and bottled in 2006 at cask strength for an event release. At that point the spirit had spent 18 years in a puncheon, the large-format barrel that delivers American or European oak character at a measured pace, and the result is a notably complex profile.
The tasting notes on record list sherried character, chocolate, hay, mossy notes, new wood and an oily texture, an unusually wide flavour spread that suggests both active cask extraction and a robust underlying distillate. At 56.3% there is no dilution to soften those contrasts, and the combination of new wood and mossy depth alongside sherried sweetness points to a cask that had given generously over the full 18 years. The 720ml bottle size indicates a Japanese domestic format.
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