150 cases. Every bottle, a face I can remember.
With every bottle, the face of the one who will drink it.
The world's great estates each draw a line: 'no more than this.' Domaine de la Romanée-Conti makes some 6,000 cases a year; Screaming Eagle, around 600 — makers at the summit of the world who refuse to chase volume.
Hayashi Wines' 150 cases — the smallest even among them. Not a single bottle reaches general distribution in Japan. Each one goes only to those Hayashi himself has approved, one establishment at a time. The smallest, most concentrated micro-winery in Napa — and its only Japanese one — where every buyer has a face.
Three coopers. One vision.
100% French oak. Vicard Generation 7, Tonnellerie de Couroc, Demptos — barrels chosen one by one from three coopers, where the wine sleeps quietly for 18 months.
On each barrel head, the Go-Shichi-no-Kiri crest. PAL-132, PAL-154 — every barrel carries its own number. A winemaker's fingerprint that mass production could never draw.