Single Malt Whisky, Japan
Created in 2008, Chichibu Japanese single malt whisky is already well known to Japanese whisky lovers, but also to whisky connoisseurs in general. Produced 100% in its own distillery, and soon for certain vintages from local barley and peat and even Japanese oak, Chichibu is on its way to becoming the very first 100% Japanese whisky, thanks to the efforts of its creator, Ichiro Akuto. Fermented in mizunara vats (a type of Japanese oak highly prized for whisky) and distilled in small stills, the resulting liquid is astonishingly mature and complex, even at a very young age. A true craftsman’s whisky. Concerto, Peated Concerto, Venture, Braemar, Tipple, Propino: these are the barley varieties used to produce the Chichibu distilled between 2013 and 2015 that make up this Paris Edition 2021. With a remarkable herbaceous freshness, its aromatic and gustatory palette also reveals a particularly juicy fruitiness, spices of great nobility of expression as well as a camphorated character that evokes at times a peaty, medicinal character.