Buxrud to release new book on the Playing Card Series

Ulf Buxrud

In just a few weeks, March 2022, Ulf Buxrud will release his third book. 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 covers 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. Each of the 58 bottles in this iconic series is presented in detail, including tasting notes, technical descriptions, as well as front and back pictures.

Buxrud is one of very few that are lucky enough to have a complete series, and all the pictures of the bottles in this book are from his private collection..

The book also offers chapters on the series aftermath, auctions, rules and data, fakes, and frauds.

Publishing date and purchase information will be published on https://www.buxrud.se/webb/.

Sláinte!
- Thomas