Chichibu Distillery starts producing its famous Whiskies in 2008. The distillery is owned by Venture Whisky Ltd. Establish by Ichiro Akuto in 2004 in Chichibu, a city in Japan’s Saitama Prefecture. About 100 kilometres from Tokyo. Ichiro Akuto is born into a family with a long brewing tradition, they had started sake brewing in Chichibu around 1625. Buy Chichibu online To this day the natural environment. Seasonal characteristics and the high quality of the water provide perfect conditions for distilleries.

Chichibu distillery is usually not open to the public but provides individual tours for professionals.

The Whisky

Although still quite young, the Chichibu Distillery already ranks high among Whisky aficionados. The great success of the “Ichiro’s Malt” brand is built on a stock of 400 casks fill with exceptional Single Malts of various finishing and colouring. These casks is the last remains of the Hanyu Distillery, Akuto’s family business. Which had to close down due to financial dire straits. Base on the Hanyu Whisky stock and the newly distill “Ichiro’s Malt” at Chichibu Distillery, Akuto starts building his brand by creating three pure Malts: “Mizunara Wood Reserve”, “Wine Wood Reserve” and “Double Distilleries”. An exceptional Whisky base on blending Malts from the old Hanyu Distillery and the new Chichibu Distillery. In addition, there are Single Malts blends and bottle in limited series. “The First”, “The Floor Malted”, “The Peated” and, from 2015, “On the Way”, mature in Bourbon and Mizunara casks, featuring also some of the original Chichibu Whisky. Buy Chichibu online