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Hakushu 18 Year Old SMWS 120.4

Lot: 6140203

Hakushu 18 Year Old SMWS 120.4

Winning Bid: £3,100
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 25 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Hakushu
Age: 
18 Year Old
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Japan
Bottler: 
SMWS
Cask Type: 
First-fill Ex Bourbon
Bottled Strength: 
59.3%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Hakushu 18 Year Old SMWS 120.4

'A thousand flowers from a forest of tall trees'

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) was founded in 1983 by a group of friends lead by tax accountant Phillip ‘Pip’ Hills as a private members club. The concept behind the society was to source casks from all over Scotland which would then be bottled and made available exclusively to its members. Perhaps the most famous feature of these bottles are the unique codes. Each distillery is represented by a different number and the following digits indicate that particular release. That same year, the SMWS set up its first location in Leith’s Vault buildings in Edinburgh where it still stands today.

This whisky has been aged for 18 years in a first-fill ex-Spanish butt.

Hakushu was the third distillery built by Suntory, established in 1973 to shoulder some of the malt production burden for Yamazaki. The latter’s grain production had moved entirely to the new Chita distillery the year prior as well. Hakushu was built at the foot of the Southern Japan Alps, a location deliberately chosen by Suntory to provide a contrast to the style of spirit produced at Yamazaki. Interestingly, a second distillery was built in 1981 (referred to as Hakushu East) which has stills of varying shapes and sizes which are able to produce a wide range of distillate character. This is in contrast to the now-dormant old site (referred to as Hakushu West) which had 24 large stills identical in shape and size, but only capable of producing one particular style of distillate. The first Hakushu single malt was bottled in 1994.

One of 520 bottles.

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