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Coal-gas, husky grain and a yeasty undercurrent define this 1988 Hanyu single cask, matured 21 years with an Oloroso sherry butt finish and bottled at 55.6% cask strength for Europe in 2009, a raw and characterful portrait of the closed Saitama distillery.
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Hanyu 21 Years Old 1988 is a single cask single malt from the closed Hanyu distillery in Saitama Prefecture, distilled in 1988 by Toa Shuzo and bottled in 2009 by Ichiro Akuto at cask strength for the European market. Twenty-one years in wood, culminating in a Spanish oak Oloroso sherry butt finish, brought considerable depth to the spirit.
The flavour profile here is notably raw and characterful: coal-gas, a husky grain quality and a yeasty note sit alongside whatever dried fruit and spice the sherry butt contributed. That combination speaks to the older, more muscular side of Hanyu's character, where the base distillate asserts itself through the cask influence rather than being polished away by it. At 55.6% the palate is intense and unapologetically direct.
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