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Chichibu The US Edition 2025

Japanese Single Malt Kanto
Age
59 years
ABV
52.5%
Introduced
2025
Flavour Fingerprint
Malt Light Fruit Citrus Floral Herbal Spice Sweet Dark Fruit Nutty Earth Maritime Smoke / Peat

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Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.

Tasting

How it drinks

Sight
Mid gold; clear and vibrant, medium legs
Nose
Abundant and generous — peach, dried apricot, baked orange, polished wood, rose-scented Turkish delight, vanilla. Delicate integrated fruitiness with fine cask spices
Palate
Rich baked fruit — apple, peach, orange, barley sugar, sweet vanilla, pepper, and clove. Candied orange peel, dried pineapple, vanilla pastry cream, hoppy bitterness. The citrus builds to smother the spice, sweetening all the while. Beer cask maturation integrates tropical hoppy IPA and imperial stout flavors
Finish
Peach cobbler on the finish with lingering vanilla, citrus, and gentle hoppy bitterness. The IPA and stout cask influence creates a unique craft-beer-meets-whisky fade. Warm and satisfying

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • 16 barrels: ex-bourbon
  • ex-IPA
  • and ex-imperial stout casks — lightly peated

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