Chichibu On The Way

700ml / 55.5%

Single Malt

$421

Fresh fruit, vanilla and new wood with a nutty, husky depth mark this 2015 On The Way from Chichibu in Saitama, an early NAS cask strength release at 55.5% from Ex-Bourbon maturation, capturing the distillery’s youthful energy from its first years of production.

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SKU JP0234 Categories Chichibu, Japanese Single Malt, Japanese Whisky, Whiskey

Description

Bottled in 2015, this On The Way release comes from an early period in Chichibu's production history, when the distillery founded by Ichiro Akuto in Saitama in 2008 was still establishing its cask programme and releasing spirit that was relatively young. At 55.5% cask strength and NAS, it is a global release matured in Ex-Bourbon wood.

The recorded flavour data gives a clear portrait of the era: fresh fruit, new wood and vanilla from the bourbon barrel, with husky grain, malt extract and a nutty quality that points to the spirit's youthful character. New wood is prominent, a natural feature of a young distillery working with relatively new barrels and young spirit. The profile is lively and vigorous in the way Chichibu's early releases consistently were, and historically significant as a document of the distillery's early output.