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Chichibu distillery was founded in 2007 by Ichiro Akuto, funded in part by the proceeds from the casks he rescued from his grandfather’s Hanyu distillery, which was closed in 2000. Distillation began at Chichibu in 2008 and in 2011 the new distillery’s warehouses became the repository for the last casks of Karuizawa after they were bought by Number One Drinks.
Chichibu’s whisky is much in demand itself, but the distillery is one of the smallest in Japan with tiny washbacks and stills giving a production capacity of less than 80,000 litres per annum. A second Chichibu distillery was built in 2018 and commenced distillation the following year. Chichibu #2's stills are much larger than those at Chichibu #1, giving it a production capacity of over 250,000 litres per year.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) began in late 1970s Edinburgh when founder Pip Hills persuaded a group of friends to chip in for a cask of Glenfarclas, and was officially formalised in 1983. Today the SMWS has members rooms in Edinbrugh, Glasgow and London and a string of international partnerships serving its 40,000 members.
The Society’s whiskies are known for their unique SMWS coding system. Each cask bottled is assigned two numbers, representing the distillery and the bottling number, so 1.45 is the forty-fifth cask bottled from the first distillery and 33.27 is the 27th cask from the 33rd distillery.
Glenmorangie bought the Society in 2004, but sold it in 2015 to a private consortium who floated the SMWS on the stock market in 2021 via their holding company Artisanal Spirits Co.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £260.00 | 1st April 2026 | 06:42 PM | |
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