‘Whisky – the final release’ Book about the amazing Japanese Card Series – Japanese Whisky News
Limhamn, Sweden November 16, 2021
Dear Whisky enthusiast
My third whisky book is soon to be published (January 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 unfold 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 (29x29cm) and quality is near art book style. Its content encompass 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. 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.
Exact publishing date will be announced on https://www.buxrud.se/webb/
Price per single copy is Euro 30 or GBP 30 or USD 35 or SEK 300.
Excluding shipment fees.
Discounted bulk option is available for groups like whisky retailers, whisky circles, sushi restauranteurs and book stores.
Price per bulk shipment (box of ten copies) is Euro 250 or GBP 250 or USD 300 or SEK 2500.
Excluding shipment fees.
Also, if you would like to make a non-binding reservation before the publishing date then let me know the numbers.
Kind regards
Ulf Buxrud
A Keeper of the Quaich
Other books by Ulf
-Rare Malts’, ISBN 1 84689 007 1, published by Quiller’s/UK 2006
-Japanese whisky’ ISBN 978-91-633-2093-4 published by DataAnalys/Sweden 2008.
-Contributed to the Asian segment of ‘Eyewitness Companion: Whisky’,
ISBN 9781 40532 8142 published by Dorling Kindersley/UK 2008.
