Hanyu Ichiro's Malt Card Queen of Clubs 1988 Bouteille (70cl)
Hanyu Ichiro’s Malt Card Queen of Clubs 1988 is an amber Japanese whisky from Ichiro’s Malt, originating from the Hanyu distillery and bottled in 2008 after 20 years of aging. This Queen of Clubs edition belongs to the Card Series. It is a single malt from cask no. 7003, initially matured in a hogshead and then finished in a new American oak hogshead. Bottled at 56%, this release was limited to 330 bottles.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (70cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Amber
- Pays
- Japon
- Région
- Japon
- Producteur / Domaine
- Ichiro's Malt
- Cuvée
- Queen of Clubs
- Millésime
- 1988
Ichiro's Malt
Ichiro's Malt is the Japanese whisky brand created by Ichiro Akuto within Venture Whisky, in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture. Its portfolio includes blends, the last historic spirits from Hanyu, and single malts produced at Chichibu's two distilleries. Ichiro Akuto manages the direction as well as the distillation and blending work.
- Owner
- Venture Whisky Ltd., société fondée et dirigée par Ichiro Akuto
- Maître de chais
- Ichiro Akuto
Histoire du domaine
Ichiro Akuto comes from the family that operated Toa Shuzo and the Hanyu distillery, built by his grandfather Isouji Akuto in 1941 and licensed to distill whisky in 1946. After Hanyu ceased operations and the family business was sold, the new owner did not wish to keep the approximately 400 casks still maturing. Akuto then sought a solution to preserve this stock, which was ultimately welcomed by Sasanokawa Shuzo. He founded Venture Whisky in 2004 to showcase these spirits and launched the first Ichiro's Malt in 2005. The Hanyu casks notably gave birth to the famous Card Series. Akuto then established the Chichibu distillery in 2007; the production license was obtained and distillation began in 2008. The first single malt from Chichibu, Ichiro's Malt Chichibu The First, was released in 2011. Venture Whisky subsequently developed its own cooperage in 2014, regularly engaged in floor malting starting in 2015, and commissioned a second distillery in Chichibu in 2019, equipped with a significantly higher production capacity than the first site. Ichiro Akuto remains president of Venture Whisky and serves as master blender and distiller.
Queen of Clubs
Queen of Clubs is a bottling from the Card Series by Ichiro's Malt, crafted with single malt from the Hanyu distillery. Distilled in 1988 and bottled in 2008, this whisky comes from single cask no. 7003, initially matured in a hogshead and then finished in a new American white oak hogshead. The release totaled 330 bottles.
- Origin of the cuvée name
- The name corresponds to the queen of clubs in a deck of cards, with each reference in the Card Series being identified by a playing card.
- Cuvée creation year
- 2008
- Style of the cuvée
- Cask-strength single malt from Hanyu, uncoloured and non-chill-filtered, structurally marked by a finish in new American oak.
- Position within the range
- Rare single-cask edition from the Card Series, an iconic and limited collection of Hanyu whiskies by Ichiro's Malt.
Histoire de la cuvée
Following the closure of Hanyu, Ichiro Akuto took over stocks of casks from the distillery and marketed them under the Ichiro's Malt brand within the Card Series. Queen of Clubs is one of the individual bottlings of this collection and was bottled in 2008 from cask no. 7003.
