Chichibu 2011 Single Mizunara Heads Cask #1475 / Tokyo Bar Show 2018

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.

This was specially bottled for the Tokyo International Bar Show in 2018, from a specially constructed hogshead with Mizunara wood heads.

Distilled in 2011 from Tipple barley and bottled in 2018 from single Mizunara heads hogshead #1475.

One of 257 bottles.