Japan’s National Tax Agency has disclosed the approval of a license for Number One Drinks’ Kyoto Distillery to make liqueur. That’s important since up until now, The Kyoto Distillery has been solely focused on gin. And they do a damn good job of it, being […]

Another stealth release out of the Kyoto Distillery: Ki No Bi Edition G, aged in ex-Henri Giraud Champagne Barrels. Seems that the idea came out of a recent visit by Claude Giraud, 12th generation winemaker at the Champagne house of Henri Giraud, to the Kyoto […]

Good news for those of you who were unable to score a bottle of the limited-edition Ki No Bi Navy Strength from last year’s Tokyo BarShow: it’s being re-released! The Kyoto Distillery is doing another limited run of the same gin. This time it’s branded […]

Here’s another original bottle out of the Kyoto Distillery: Ki No Bi Navy Strength ALLGIN. This time it’s a collaboration with the new Rakuten-based gin-only webstore ALLGIN. We last saw Ki No Bi Navy Strength (54.5% abv) as one of the festival bottles at the […]

The Kyoto Distillery announced the highly limited release of “Ki Noh Bi” aged gin, available only from Isetan/Mitsukoshi and apparently already sold out. The only details I have are what’s available on that product page. Nothing even posted on Ki No Bi’s official website yet. […]

Kyoto Distillery’s Ki No Bi Gin has taken home a gold medal at the International Wine & Spirits Competition, now in it’s 48th year. IWSC Gold awards are given to products that are a “Superior example; setting the standard.” So it’s a very high honor […]