Hanyu 21 years 1988 Number One Drinks Single Cask n°9306 - One of 625 - bottled 2009 Noh Label

  • 55.60% |
  • 0.70L

A Hanyu distilled in 1988 and bottled in 2009 as cask strength as a part of the Noh Whisky series, created by Number One Drinks, a company founded in 2006 by David Croll and Marcin Miller. They were also the pair responsible for bottling a number of Karuizawa, in support of the Kamiasobi Noh Theatr…More info

Description du lot

  • Distillery: Hanyu
  • Appellation: Single Malt Whisky
  • Country/Region: Japan , Honshu - Saitama
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 3cm
  • State: 1 very slightly marked label

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Hanyu 21 years 1988 Number One Drinks Single Cask n°9306 - One of 625 - bottled 2009 Noh Label

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  • Current Price Estimate

  • €2,152
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  • 22/10/2021 €6,018
  • 12/02/2021 €4,130

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Hanyu 21 years 1988 Number One Drinks Single Cask n°9306 - One of 625 - bottled 2009 Noh Label

Cuvée presentation

A Hanyu distilled in 1988 and bottled in 2009 as cask strength as a part of the Noh Whisky series, created by Number One Drinks, a company founded in 2006 by David Croll and Marcin Miller. They were also the pair responsible for bottling a number of Karuizawa, in support of the Kamiasobi Noh Theatre company. This theatre company was founded in 1997 with the goal of passing on the traditional Japanese artform whose origins can be traced back as far as the 14th century. As it happens, the character shown on the label is Saigyouzakura, the spirit of the cherry blossom tree. The whiskey was aged for 21 years in a Spanish oak sherry cask (#9306) from which they drew 625 bottles. It is one of the only two Hanyu bottles in the Noh Whisky series.

The distillery Hanyu

Japan, Saitama. Distillery closed and dismantled.

It was in 1941 that the Akuto family, saké brewers for generations, founded its distillery in the small town of Hanyu in Saitama Prefecture. In 1946, Hanyu was awarded a spirit production licence and began producing a grain spirit. In the early 1980s, the family began producing a Scottish-style malt whisky and equipped the distillery with pot stills. From 1983 to March 2000, it somehow supported this activity, but it was far from a commercial success and eventually the family decided to end the practice. The distillery was dismantled in 2004 and the site sold. It was Ichiro, Isouji Akuto's grandson, who bought the stills, along with some 400 barrels of Hanyu single malt in barrel. It was from this stock, covering the period 1985-2000, that the Playing Cards Series was created, a collection of 52 single casks of all ages and styles of maturation. A full set would today be valued at nearly one million euros. In parallel, Ichiro sold a huge number of single casks to his customers and brought to life his dream of building his own distillery, Chichibu.

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Detailed characteristics

  • Distillery: Hanyu
  • Vintage: 1988
  • Bottler: Number One Drinks
  • Age: 21 years
  • Appellation: Single Malt Whisky
  • Country/Region: Japan , Honshu - Saitama
  • Alcohol percentage: 55.60 %
  • Volume: 0.70L
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 3cm
  • State: 1 very slightly marked label
  • Case: No
  • Origin: Private individual
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Color: Brown

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