Ichiro's Malt Double Distilleries 2021 Caol Ila was built in 1891

was built in 1891

The title of this project is appropriated from Pablo Neruda’s Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair)

distilled in 1990

and is today owned by Dewar & Sons

and started buying a few old casks for his own small scale bottling

Ichiro's Malt Double Distilleries 2021 Caol Ila was built in 1891Mr Ichiro Akuto has an interesting link to three of Japan's most famous distilleries, two lost, and one thriving. The Akuto family has a long tradition of distilling, starting with sake around Saitama since the 17th century. It was Ichiro's grandfather who, around 1946 founded the Hanyu distillery (), which was dedicated to the craft of whisky distilling true to Scottish traditions. Unfortunately, Hanyu fell on hard times and closed around 2004, with