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Fresh fruit, honey and vanilla shaped this single cask Hanyu distilled in 1991 and aged 19 years in an Ex-Bourbon Red Oak barrel before Daily Dram bottled it at cask strength, drawing on stocks from the Saitama distillery that closed in 2000.
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Hanyu was a single malt distillery in Saitama Prefecture, built by Toa Shuzo and operating from the early 1980s until its closure in 2000. When the site closed, Ichiro Akuto rescued the remaining casks and released them under the Ichiro's Malt label, including individual single cask expressions that now represent some of the rarest bottlings from Japan. This cask, number 377, was distilled in 1991 and bottled by Daily Dram in 2010 after 19 years of maturation, making it a single cask release at natural cask strength.
The cask was an Ex-Bourbon barrel with Red Oak character, and the result shows the freshness that Hanyu malt often retained across long ageing: fresh fruit, honey and vanilla sit at the core, with the Red Oak adding a drier, slightly tannic structure beneath. At 56%, it has the intensity expected of a cask strength Saitama single malt from this period.
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