Chichibu 7 Years Old 2016 Cask #6179 (LMDW)

700ml / 63.7%

Single Malt

$716

From Chichibu’s 2016 vintage, cask 6179 spent seven years in an Ex-Bourbon barrel before La Maison du Whisky bottled it at 63.7% cask strength, capturing the Saitama distillery’s clean orchard fruit and vanilla-spice house note.

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SKU JP0200 Categories Chichibu, Japanese Single Malt, Japanese Whisky, Whiskey

Description

Cask number 6179 is a 2016 vintage Chichibu single malt drawn from an Ex-Bourbon barrel and bottled in 2024 at 63.7% by La Maison du Whisky for France. Chichibu distillery, operated by Venture Whisky in Saitama prefecture, was founded in 2008 by Ichiro Akuto, who built the site to revive a family tradition that traces back through the now-silent Hanyu distillery.

Seven years of Ex-Bourbon maturation places this cask at a characterful and accessible point in the distillery's development, where the American oak has given vanilla, caramel and warm spice without dominating the fruit-bright new make beneath. The flavour data for this cask is not specified, so the profile sits within Chichibu's well-documented Ex-Bourbon register: clean, sweetly fruited and cereally rounded. At 63.7% the bottling carries cask strength intensity and a satisfying palate presence.

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Weight

1.6 kg