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Hanyu 2000 - 2011. Ichiro's Card Series - Ten of Hearts. Cask number 463. One of 295 bottles matured in a Madeira Hogshead. 700ml. 61.0%. No box.
One of the legendary Card Series Hanyu vintage single casks bottled by the modern master of Japanese whisky Ichiro Akuto using the stocks he saved from his grandfather’s Hanyu distillery after it closed down in the early years of this century. This Hanyu is from the 2000 vintage and was bottled in 2011 after finishing in a Madeira hogshead. Cask 463 yielded just 295 bottles at its whopping natural cask strength of 61%. A remarkable Japanese single malt.
The Hanyu distillery only made single malt whisky for around twenty years and died in relative obscurity in 2000 but has since become one of the legendary Japanese distilleries after Ichiro Akuto, grandson of the distillery’s founder Isouji Akuto, purchased the last remaining casks of the distillery’s whisky, saving them from being redistilled for shochu production.
The resulting bottlings, which include the Hanyu Card Series, are now among the most famous and valuable whiskies ever released, with a full set of 54 bottles from the Hanyu Card Series being sold for $1.5 million at auction in 2020, and the rarer individual bottlings reaching as high as £60,000 at recent auctions. In 2020 the present owners of Toa Shuzo, the parent company of the Hanyu brand, announced that a new Hanyu distillery had been constructed, with distillation beginning in 2021.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
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| £3,500.00 | 15th September 2025 | 03:21 PM | |
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