The Chita Suntory Whisky 70cl, 43% ABV

Description

Chita is Suntory’s grain distillery. The flagship release is aged in a combination of wine, sherry and bourbon casks. This is a light whisky with subtle notes of mint, honey and wood spice.

From Suntory’s ‘silent’ distillery in the Aichi Prefecture, this is a single grain whisky from the Chita Distillery, which opened in 1972 in Port Nagoya, Japan. This grain distillery already produces whiskies you know and love, namely the grain whisky backbone of the Hibiki range and other Suntory products.

Extremely rare offerings aside, Suntory hasn’t bothered to bottle much of anything from Chita as a single grain. It’s one domestic core range product; the Chita Grain (which was already a limited-production bottling), all but disappeared as demand for Hibiki expanded. Initially released for the Japanese market in September 2015, beginning in July 2016, it will be available at select travel retail and duty free outlets.