ICHIRO STRIKES AGAIN

No, this is not Ichiro Suzuki, who at the advanced age of 45 and 28 years of professional baseball, announced his retirement this year.  He spent 19 of them in America.

This posting is about Ichiro Akuto, who at the age of 59, is the wunderkin of whisky makers:

The whisky auction at Bonhams Hong Kong featured Ichiro's Malt Full Card Series breaking the world record for the most valuable Japanese whisky collection ever to go at auction:  $7,192,000.  These are the 54 bottles representing the cards in a deck, plus two jokers.  

Other whiskies were also sold, such as  a bottle of 33-year old Karuizawa 1960, for $94,868:

Hibiki 35-year old Kutani sold for $44,271:

In comparison, Ichiro's Malt Ace of Spades was a bargain, a mere $31,622:

Earlier this month I posted on WHAT IN THE WORLD HAS HAPPENED TO THE PRICE OF JAPANESE WHISKY?  I featured Ichiro Akuto, and had a personal tasting of his cheapest whiskey and Suntory's Toki, with a bento and sashimi.

I couldn't then tell you where to go to get these bottles, but I now can, and they are available at Marukai.  After I read about this latest coup, and the limited quantities he can produce from his tiny distillery, I went back and got another Ichiro, plus added a second Toki, for it was smooth, compared to that Ichiro potion.

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Only a tropical depression, but this one, still un-named, is expected to become a hurricane by Wednesday and head for the Caribbean islands: