Chichibu 2009 Ichiro's Malt Single Cask #461 / Newborn Heavily Peated

The Ichiro's Malt brand is produced by Japanese firm, Venture Whisky, and is named after their founder, Ichiro Akuto. Venture Whisky was established in 2004 after Ichiro acquired the remaining unblended stocks of single malt from his grandfather's Hanyu distillery. Ichiro's Malt was born the following year, with the release of the original 'Card' series single casks of Hanyu. The company then opened its own distillery in 2008, the increasingly sought-after Chichibu. In addition to bottling these two single malts, the Ichiro's Malt brand has also produced a number of sought after blended whiskies like this over the years.

A very early bottling from Chichibu, this 'Newborn' bottling of heavily peated spirit was distilled in 2009. It was then placed into New American Oak cask #461 in 2009 and bottled in 2011 at a strength of 61.9%.

This is one of only 332 bottles produced.