Chichibu Ichiro’s Malt Peated U.S. Edition (2020 Release)

Icy cool clinical whisky with a precision delivery of peat smoke and icing sugar vanilla sponge cake attractive spiciness and a touch of mint on the nose. The mouthfeel is effervescent with fizzing spices buckets of bourbon-cask sweetness sugary vanilla and a huge thrust of clove at full strength becoming richer as the peat smoke blows through. Water coaxes out lime and clementine peel and a deeper more rounded smoke. (2109 bottles)