‘Whisky- The Final Edition’ by Ulf Buxrud

My third whisky book is soon to be published (March 2022).

It is a tale of the supreme collectible, enjoyable, and valuable iconic whisky series ever made.

A near-complete (54 of 58 versions) series was sold at Bonham’s auction house in Hong Kong November 20, 2020, for USD 1.5 million.

The book unfolds the story about the magnificent Playing Card Series from Hanyu and Chichibu Whisky Distilleries in Japan, distilled by the Akuto family and bottled by Ichiro Akuto-san.

The book is a 170-page book of coffee table size (29x29x1cm) and quality is near art book style. Its content encompasses the story of the Chichibu-Kikusui, Hanyu, Chichibu distilleries, and the Akuto family.

A chapter is dedicated to the complete Playing card series and how it started. Here, each bottle is the ‘objets d’art’, occupying a full page. The opposite page contains my 58 tasting notes, technical descriptions, and the flip side of the bottles.

All 58 bottle pictures are from my own Playing Card Series collection. Other sections comprise the series aftermath, auctions, rules and data, fakes, and frauds.

A special chapter called Passing time deals with experimental mixology on account of the Playing card series and summarizing tasting notes.

Publishing date and purchase information are available on www.buxrud.se/webb

Kind regards

Ulf Buxrud

A Keeper of the Quaich

whisky@buxrud.se

Other books by Ulf

–Rare Malts’, ISBN 1 84689 007 1, published by Quiller’s/UK 2006

–Japanese whisky ISBN 9789163320934 published by

 DataAnalys/SE 2008

-Contributed to the Asian segment of ‘Eyewitness Companion: Whisky’,

 ISBN 9781 40532 814 2 published by Dorling   Kindersley/UK 2008.