Hanyu Ichiro Full Card Series whisky!
The ultra-rare Full Card Series consists of 54 bottles of Scotch-style malt whisky, each of which represents the playing cards in a full deck (including two jokers), from the Hanyu Ichiro distillery. Founded by Isouji Akuto in 1941, the legendary distillery closed its doors in 2000, but not before Akuto’s grandson Ichiro could preserve 400 casks of premium whisky. He then personally selected which whisky would be used for each “card,” which were then bottled and released between 2005 and 2014.
This particular set comes from Club Qing, a Japanese and Scotch whisky bar located in Hong Kong. The 54 bottles were all collected by the bar’s founder, Aaron Chen, before any of the “cards” made their way to the auction market and has been on display at the bar since it opened in 2015.
Sold for a stunning $1.52 million at Bonhams’s Fine & Rare Wine and Whisky auction in Hong Kong