Chichibu 2009 Newborn Single Cask #461 / Wooden Box

Chichibu distillery in Saitama, Japan was opened in 2008, and was the country’s first new distillery since Suntory opened Hakushu back in 1973. Chichibu was the brainchild of Ichiro Akuto, grandson of the founder of the legendary Hanyu distillery. The Ichiro’s Malt brand appeared in 2005 and rose to fame through the bottling of the last casks from Hanyu, particularly the sought after ‘Card’ series. The first Chichibu releases appeared under it in 2011.

A very early bottling from Chichibu, this heavily peated 'Newborn' bottling was distilled in 2009 and bottled in 2011, spending only 2 years maturing in single new American oak cask #461. It was bottled as the first release in the 'Cigar Series', exclusively for Takashimaya Nihombashi in Tokyo.

One of 332 bottles.