Chichibu Ichiro's Malt & Grain 10th Anniversary For Bar Peace (Hanyu Karuizawa) Single Sherry Cask Blend #11953 70cl

Chichibu Ichiro's Malt & Grain 10th Anniversary For Bar Peace (Hanyu Karuizawa) Single Sherry Cask Blend #11953 70cl

1 of 277 bottles produced. A very rare example of a Chichibu (albeit it contains Karuizawa and Hanyu also)

Ichiro's Malt and Grain is a limited edition, blended by the king of independent Japanese distillers: Ichiro Akuto.

It comprises whisky from his own stocks, including potentially Hanyu and Karuizawa, as well as his own Chichibu distillery, and possibly also some components distilled at other Japanese distilleries and from other countries. Everything was originally blended into one cask and now here we are with a very rare breed of whisky produced in Japan.

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.

This is a blend from Ichiro Akuto, matured in single Oloroso sherry hogshead #11953. It was bottled in December 2023 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bar Peace.

It is uncertain when this was distilled although it has retained a lot of colour in the blend and Japan are not known for adding caramel colouring so this is not only a mystery, a rarity but also very little info exists on the taste of this....

57% ABV

70cl