ICHIRO'S MALT & Grain Blended Japanese Whisky 2024

The 2024 edition of Ichiro’s Malt & Grain Japanese Blended Whiskey 2024 is entirely composed of malt and grain whiskies from Japan.

These limited editions have been named “World’s Best Limited Edition Blend” at the World Whiskies Awards in four of the last six years, highlighting their extraordinary quality and the expertise and talent of those who created them.

Ichiro Akuto, the creator of this whisky, used the oldest stocks from the Chichibu distillery, but also rare and precious barrels from the closed Hanyu and Kawasaki distilleries that he was able to collect and store in Chichibu.

Hanyu, his grandfather's distillery, distilled only single malt, the last filled barrels of which are now around twenty years old, while Kawasaki was a distillery entirely dedicated to the production of grain whisky.

This prodigious Japanese blend slowly but surely opens up towards a complexity characteristic of these limited editions: ripe fruits, old wood, fresh herbs and fine spices. The delicate smoke in an incense style remains a key element of the tasting.