Chichibu The Single Cask Peated 6 Years Old 2012

700ml / 61.8%

Single Malt

$2016

Smoke, medicinal peat, toasted nut and new wood layer together in this single-cask peated Chichibu from the 2012 vintage, a six-year-old cask-strength release bottled for the Japanese market at 61.8% from Ex-Bourbon oak in Saitama.

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SKU JP0129 Categories Chichibu, Japanese Single Malt, Japanese Whisky, Whiskey

Description

This single-cask peated release was distilled at Chichibu in Saitama in 2012 and bottled in 2018 after six years in Ex-Bourbon wood. Chichibu, Venture Whisky's distillery established by Ichiro Akuto in 2008, distils a portion of its annual production from peated malt and releases single-cask peated expressions for the Japanese domestic market.

The flavour profile is explicitly smoky, medicinal, nutty and woody, with a toasted quality from the Ex-Bourbon barrel. At six years old the peat integration is still young and direct, presenting without the softening that longer maturation would bring. Bottled at 61.8% cask strength, the whisky is powerful and expressive, a clear example of Chichibu's peated character at mid-youth.