News & New Releases

"In my face, there are many faces... And the world too, has many faces." – Aki Kuroda     Four bottlings of Chichibu Single Malt from the new An...

  (Image Source: LMDW, Minneapolis Institute of Art)   Chichibu's Paris Edition is back for the fifth year running, this time featuring the lithog...

  The Japanese Festival 2022 is back in Tokyo from 17 - 18 December, 2022, and y'know what that means - commemorative festival bottlings! For thi...

(Image Source: JAL)   As air travel roars back, Japan Airlines (JAL) has something special in store for international first class passengers: a 9-...

The famed Chichibu Shrine. (Image Source: Fun! Japan)   Chichibu is not just famous for the namesake whisky distillery, it is also home to the Chi...

Chichibu releases sixth iteration of its The Peated bottling, due to be released in late February 2022. Total of 11,000 bottles to be released, b...

Mandarin Oriental Tokyo has announced a bottling chosen specially for the iconic hotel, from Ichiro's Malt & Grain line, a world blended whis...

 A trio of Japanese whiskies have been released: Ichiro's Malt & Grain Classical Edition, Akkeshi's Lidong and Nagahama's Inazuma Extra Selec...

LMDW has opened the ballot for the new Chichibu Paris Edition 2021. It is entitled Conquête, which means Conquest in French. It is composed of mu...

UK departmental store Harvey Nichols has released an 8 Year Old Single Cask Chichibu that was matured in red wine casks. It was bottled for Harve...

Intergalactic Series is a series of private Chichicbu bottlings for Austrian alcohol distributors Vienna Distribution and Salud Distribution. The...

  Whisky swapping between distilleries is a uniquely Japanese practice and was started at beverage giants Suntory and Nikka.  This was done to ...