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Distilled at Hanyu in Saitama in 1988 and aged 26 years in an Ex-Bourbon hogshead before Shinanoya bottled it at cask strength for the Japanese market, this single cask carries the rounded, honeyed depth and faint tropical edge typical of Hanyu malt across long bourbon-wood maturation.
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Hanyu was a single malt distillery in Saitama Prefecture, operated by Toa Shuzo from the early 1980s until it closed in 2000. Cask number 471 was distilled in 1988 and spent 26 years in an Ex-Bourbon hogshead before being bottled in 2014 by Shinanoya, the Tokyo retailer, as a Japan-market single cask release at natural cask strength.
Twenty-six years in a hogshead is a long maturation for bourbon-wood spirit, and Ex-Bourbon casks at this age typically yield honeyed vanilla, dried apricot and a faint tropical note, with the oak becoming more pronounced but not dominant in the way a sherry cask would be. At 51.9%, the spirit retains presence without the grip of a higher-proof release. The combination of extended Ex-Bourbon ageing and Hanyu's typically soft, fruit-forward new make makes this one of the more composed expressions of the distillery's house character.
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