ICHIRO’S MaltWine Wood Reserve
イチローズモルト ワインウッド リザーブ
Malt whiskies including Hanyu legacy stock and Chichibu whisky are finished in red-wine casks. At 46% ABV, this Japanese blended malt layers red fruit, bitter chocolate, spice and gentle tannin.
Hanyu and Chichibu, joined through red-wine casks.
Multiple malt whiskies, including key malt from the closed Hanyu distillery and whisky from Chichibu, are brought together and finished in red-wine casks. Red fruit and tannin from the casks meet malt sweetness and oak.
This page does not specify the origins or detailed composition of the wine casks, or the proportions of the component whiskies.
Malt depth, layered with red fruit and tannin from wine casks.
Hanyu and Chichibu
The composition includes key malt from the closed Hanyu distillery and whisky from Chichibu.
Red-wine cask finish
The finish brings red fruit, chocolate and spice into the malt-led structure.
Non-chill filtered, natural colour
Natural colour and texture are retained without chill filtration or added colouring.
Red fruit, bitter chocolate and white pepper.
Raspberry, blackberry and cassis meet orange peel, bitter chocolate, cinnamon and nuts. Gentle tannin and peppery spice give definition before a finish of brown sugar and oak.
Explore the wine-cask character as the temperature changes.
Neat
Red fruit, chocolate, spice and oak can be followed most directly when served neat.
On the rocks
Cooling tightens sweetness and tannin while fruit and oak open more gradually.
Highball
Soda lightens the red fruit and spice while the 46% malt structure holds the drink together.
Four directions built on red fruit and tannin from the wine cask
The food affinities for ICHIRO’S Malt Wine Wood Reserve are not official pairings from the maker, but a reading drawn from the characteristics recorded on this page. Four directions are built around the red fruit and tannin, and the bitter chocolate and spice, that come from the red-wine cask finish.
A whisky’s aroma is shaped by the compounds carried from its raw materials and its casks, meeting the aroma, fat and sweetness of a dish. What follows is a structural reading of pairings where those aroma families run in the same direction, not a scientific claim about any single ingredient.
Reading each whisky clearly, then giving it form in Chichibu.
Venture Whisky Co., Ltd. was founded in 2004, and Chichibu Distillery began operating in 2008. Under Ichiro Akuto, distillation, maturation and blending are used to bring the character of each whisky into a coherent final profile.
Recognition associated with the maker.
The distinctions below were awarded to founder Ichiro Akuto. They are not awards for this specific product and are not presented as such.
Awarded to Ichiro Akuto.
Ichiro Akuto was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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