I was able to taste this incredibly delicious and incredibly rare Hanyu single malt at the Chichibu Distillery. It was offered to our group as a celebration of the 75th birthday of one of our companions. It's a good thing that Peter had a birthday while we were there! This is the 54th and final bottling of the famous Hanyu Ichiro’s Card Series. There were two Jokers released to complete the 58 bottle series, one in color and one in black and white. This particular bottling is the Color 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 (quarter cask), Madeira hogshead and bourbon. There were 3690 bottles in this sought-after release.