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Nine Leaves 2018 Unsun Karuta - Ace of 'Guru'
Distillery
Distillery status
Closed
Vintage
2018
Sweetened
No
Region
Japan
Base
Jaggery
Distillery
Nine Leaves
A Japanese distillery that operated between 2013 and 2023. Unusually, the distillery was owned by a large auto-parts manufacturer called Takehiro Co Ltd, and was a passion project of one of its partners, Yoshiharu Takeuchi. The distillery made pot-distilled rums from unique brown sugar base.
Founded
2013
Production type
Pure single rum
Company
Velier
An Italian importer and distributor founded in Genoa in 1947. Under the ownership of Luca Gargano since 1986, it has become one of the most important companies in the world rum. It represents a huge array of brands in Europe as well as marketing a number of its own.
Founded
1947
Company type
Distributor,
Importer,
Independent Bottler
Series
Nine Leaves Unsun Karuta Collection
A collection of Nine Leaves rums from the closed Japanese distillery. Following its cessation of operation in 2023, the remaining casks were acquired by Velier and released as this series, no doubt inspires by Ichiro Akuto's similar Hanyu single malt retrospective between 2005 and 2014.
Dates of production
2024-present