With water: lemon-scented candle wax, going towards some young Clynelish.
It’s all pretty delicate, with a little butterscotch and brioche coming out after one minute. Nose: indeed, no smoke, rather herbs, barks, and autumn leaves at first, then rather greengages and green gooseberries. SGP:556 - 86 points.Ĭhichibu 2009/2012 ‘The Floor Malted’ (50.5%, OB, Ichiro’s Malt, Japan, 8800 bottles) No peat this time, I suppose… Colour: white wine. Comments: I liked the immaculateness of the quasi-new make a touch better, but other than that, this is great. Finish: rather long, on more almonds, some kind of smoked marzipan, and green pepper. With water: Ardbeg Ten from ten years ago. Love these bitter almonds, for example, I’m a sucker for those. Much less mellow and easy than on the nose, but it’s still quite beautiful. Indeed, this one’s very peppery, beyond the lemony smoke. Mouth (neat): that’s the thing with active oak, they can make your spirit a touch too peppery. Nose: softer and gentler, probably better balanced, with some vanilla, some sweeter smoke, hessian, those tarry ropes, drops of embrocations, and once again wee touches of bananas. SGP:557 - 87 points.Ĭhichibu 2009/2012 ‘The Peated’ (50.5%, OB, Ichiro’s Malt, Japan, 5000 bottles) I hope they used the same recipe… Colour: gold.
Well, not quite a legend, only hard facts. Comments: yeah, brilliant, this is how the whole legend of Chichibu started. Perhaps banana sweets? Pear drops? Finish: long, and fairly sweeter, with some mint and cough syrup coming back in the aftertaste. With water: ultra-chiselled lemony peat, with some vanilla and sweeter fruits from the American oak. Mouth (neat): extremely ‘spiky’, lemony, and salty. Crunching a lemon wearing a new scuba diving suit (you, not the lemon). With water: some new rubber and more lemon. Antiseptic, sea air, fresh bitter almonds (crushed), lime juice, moss, mint tea, camphor, Barbour grease, and indeed a lot of ‘coastal’ smoke.
Nose: one of the Islaymost casks for sure. So let’s do a little ‘historical’ tour of Chichibu today, if you don’t mind…Ĭhichibu 2009/2009 'Newborn Peated' (61.4%, OB, Japan, new American hogshead, cask #452, 361 bottles) I remember sister cask #451 had much impressed me back in 2010 (WF 88), while just like this one, it was not even, err, one. No that's no pleonasm, some are now ten years old! Oh and I've got complains because we've had too many J-whiskies last week, especially those Kurayoshis that are fake Japanese… (old Scotch that's young, distillery bourbons or Irish whiskeys that are not from that distillery - if it even exists, Japanese whisky that's not Japanese, where are we heading to?) But today it’s Chichibu’s turn! Many whisky lovers believe that Chichibu’s the best fairly recent piece of news that happened to Japanese whisky, and indeed the older one that we had a few days ago, the Metropolis for Zoetrope, was superb (WF 90).
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