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Incremental Bidding Explained
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Bottle Details
There are two Joker releases to complete the 54 bottle Card series, one in colour and one in black and white. This particular bottling is a vatting of 14 casks covering vintages from 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 2000. The casks used for this included a sherry butt, puncheon, hogshead, cognac cask, Chibidaru quarter cak, Madeira hogshead and bourbon cask.
Hanyu Ichiro's Malt 'Card' / The Joker 'Colour'
Since its stills were turned off in 2000, Hanyu has become one of Japan's most sought after single malts. An economic recession at the turn of the millennium forced the distillery to shut its doors, and the remaining casks of its unblended whisky stock were purchased by Venture Whisky, a firm established by the Hanyu distillery founder's grandson, Ichiro Akuto, in 2004. In 2005 he bottled his first single casks under the Ichiro's Malt label.
The 54th and final bottling in Ichiro's Card Series.
There are two Joker's released to complete the 54 bottle series, one in colour and one in Black and White. This particular bottling is the Colour Joker, a vatting of 14 casks covering vintages from 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 2000. The casks used for this final bottling include a sherry butt, puncheon, hogshead, Cognac, chibidaru, Madeira hogshead and bourbon.
Only 3,690 bottles of this highly sought after whisky have been made available.
Hanyu
A Japanese malt distillery located in the town of the same name. It developed immense collectable status following its closure 2000 after the famous "Card" series was bottled by Ichiro's Malt. Believed to be lost forever, its former owners rebuilt it and distilling commenced again in 2021.
Ichiro's Malt
A brand of Japanese whisky bottlings from Ichiro Akuto's Venture Whisky. Its first releases were the now legendary Card series bottlings of Hanyu, introduced in 2005. Today it counts Chichibu single malt as a sub-brand, as well as various blended Japanese whiskies.
Venture Whisky
A company set up in 2004 by Ichiro Akuto in order to obtain the stocks from his grandfather's former distillery, Hanyu. In 2008 it opened its own distillery called Chichibu, and markets its single malt as well as blends under the Ichiro's Malt banner.
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