Ichiro’s Malt Single Malt Whisky Cask #646

Ichiro Akuto is a name you should get to know. You’ll likely hear that name mentioned along with the word Phoenix more times than you will care to remember. He is the founder of Chichibu Distillery, which was founded from the ashes of the Hanyu distillery, a once Akuto owned distillery that met its end in 2000.¬†

Chichibu distillery is a small distillery with only nine full-time employees, located in¬†Chichibu city, Saitama just outside of Tokyo. It is also the first whisky distillery built in Japan since the 1970s. Specializing in Single Malts, the distillery has produced some very highly respected and in-demand whiskies since its founding, which started with some leftover malts from the Hanyu distillery that the new owners of that operation didn’t want.

Ichiro’s Malt Single Malt Single Cask #646 is 8 years old, bottled in 2018, and one of 171 bottles.