Hanyu 2000 14 Years American Oak Hogshead Cask No. 957 Tay Bak Chiang 2010 Her Eyebrow Japan Single Malt Whisky Cask Strength 59.9% Vol. - a exclusive and stunning Japan Single Malt from the closed distillery Hanyu!
A rare and exclusive vintage 2000 14 year old Hanyu Japan Single Malt Whisky from the Tay Bak Chiang limited single cask edition, distilled in 2000 and bottled after 14 years maturation in an American oak hogshead with cask no. 957 in a limited edition with an artist's label by Singapore-born Tay Bak Chiang titled Her Eyebrow for La Maison du Whisky in the year 2014 with no added colouring or chill filtration at cask strength 56.0% vol.
Born in 1973, Bak Chiang graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore in 1995 and studied at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, in 1997. He was awarded the First Prize in the Chinese Painting category in the 19th and 22nd United Overseas Bank Painting of the Year Competitions (2000 and 2003 respectively). In 2002 he received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council of Singapore.
Tay Bak Chiang paints subjects found in the nature of Singapore and Southeast Asia, such as heliconias, lotus ponds and rocks. He seeks to reinterpret them in terms of form, composition, technique, material and colour. Lotus flowers, for example, are depicted as minimalist forms in bold hues; lotus stalks as thick, unembellished black strokes; and stones as textured shapes and sculptural blocks in intense colours made by combining pigment and traditional Chinese ink. Through these subjects, he expresses his sentiments and philosophies.
The Hanyu distillery was originally a family business and was founded in 1626 by the Akuto family. They were originally sake producers in the village of Chichibu. Isouji Akuto, the 19th generation of the Akuto family built a plant to produce alcohol in 1941 in the town of Hanyu, northwest of Tokyo. A licence for production was granted in 1946. In 1980, two stills were installed and serious attempts began to produce a Scotch-style whisky. At that time, consumers mainly demanded blended whisky, but this has since shifted more clearly towards malt whisky. In 1990, the first Chichibu whisky was launched by Hanyu, named after the place where sake was originally produced. Ownership changed and the new management decided to get rid of the maturing whiskies and distilling equipment. Fortunately, a sake producer from northern Japan, Sasanokawa Shuzo, decided to save the Hanyu distillery and took over the whiskies and equipment at this critical time. Eventually, Ichro Akuto, grandson of the founder of the Hanyu distillery, founded a new company called Venture Whisky and started producing malt whisky again.
A special piece of Japanese whisky history from the closed Hanyu distillery and exclusive Japan single malt for connoisseurs, the discerning whisky collector and lovers of exceptional and old single malt whiskies!
- Colour: old gold
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Japan
- Vintage: 2000
- Age: 14 years old
- Year bottled: 2014
- Cask Wood Type: American Oak Hogshead
- Cask No.: 957
- Alcohol ABV% 59.9 - Cask Strength
- Bottling Series: Tay Bak Chiang Limited Single Cask Edition
- Label: Artistlabel by Tay Bak Chiang - 2010 Her Eyebrow
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- not coloured / chill filtered
- Packaging original boxed (box with traces)
- Producer/Importeur: La Maison du Whisky, 9-11 rue Martre, 92110 Clichy, France
- Country of Origin: Japan
- limited, number unknown - very rare collector´s whisky!
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