Chichibu 2009, Hanyu 2000 & Karuizawa 35 Year Old SAFE Bubbles & Malt Premium Collection 3 x 70cl

This Premium Collection release was produced for whisky merchants SAFE Bubbles and Malt of Hong Kong. Comes in a presentation case adorned with Eastern Asian imagery. 

Chichibu:

From its Mizunara wash backs and small stills with steep lyne arms to the fact that the mashman uses a wooden paddle to stir the mash, Chichibu is a hands-on distillery with quality as an intrinsic focus. With the ground now broken on a blending room, and an off-site cooperage, Ichiro Akuto’s distillery - formed from the ashes of his grandfather’s Hanyu distillery - is one of the finest producers in Japan. With the perfect climate of humid summers and cold winters, Chichibu is an ideal location for whisky production and has become a huge part of the Japanese whisky revolution.

Distilled: 2009

Bottled: 2015

Cask Number: 640

61.1% ABV / 70cl

Bottle Number: One of only 214 bottles released

Please note minor wear to label and fill level

Hanyu:

Built in 1941 during World War II, closed in 2000 and dismantled in 2004, Hanyu’s legacy lives on thanks to Ichiro Akuto who purchased the remaining 400 casks and began releasing it in the Ichiro’s Malt card series. This marketing masterstroke featured a different playing card on the label, allowing people to easily remember their favourites and encouraging collectors to complete the full deck. There were only 17 years of whisky production at Hanyu so stocks are not only attractively collectible but also limited and scarce.

Distilled: 2000

Bottled: 2015

Cask Number: 955

60.0% ABV / 70cl

Bottle Number: One of only 295 bottles released

Karuizawa:

The mountain town of Karuizawa is situated on a high plain at the base of active volcano, Mount Asama, in the heart of Japan’s mainland. In 1956, the wine and spirits giant, Daikoku Budoshu, expanded their already established empire there by building a distillery with the onus of producing a single malt to be utilised in the company’s blends. They christened it ‘Ocean’. 1958 saw a freer importation channel opening up for malt, and barley flowed into Japan from the UK. Karuizawa Factory, as it was then known, worked with Golden Promise barley (also famously used by Macallan), and matured their signature spirit in sherry casks, yet very little actually left the country, which in future would lend hugely to its collectability.

Bottled: 2015

Age: 35 Years Old

Cask Type: Bourbon

Cask Number: 640

55.1% ABV / 70cl

Bottle Number: One of only 137 bottles released

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