The Chichibu Distillery Single Malt Whisky, ‘Ichiro’s Malt, Single Cask #12507

• Single cask single malt Japanese whisky distilled by Chichibu Distillery in Saitama, Japan
• Distilled from 100% unpeated malted Odyssey barley
• Fermented 100 hours in Mizunara oak washbacks
• Double distilled in Forsyths copper pot stills
• Aged 9 years in a Koshu white wine cask
• Robust flavors of red fruit, tobacco, bitter greens, and spicy coriander drive the palate toward a juicy, oaky finish
• Limited US release of only 260 bottles
• Non-chill filtered; bottled at a cask strength of 62.5% ABV

Cask #12507, or the “Tomodachi Cask,” was aged for nine years in a Koshu wine cask—a wine made with a high-acid white grape variety primarily grown in the Koshu valley of Japan’s Yamanashi Prefecture. Tomodachi means “friend” and serves as the perfect moniker for a bottle labeled with classic artwork from illustrator E.H. Shepard and A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh.