Kirin Once Upon A Time Pure Malt Whisky 50ml Miniatur Rarität This version is a bottle

This version is a bottle from the earliest bottling years

This US bottling from the 1990s has a tin outer packaging

complete with the obligatory animal bottle

An absolute rarity not only for gin drinkers

Some of the labels are slightly damaged

Kirin Once Upon A Time Pure Malt Whisky 50ml Miniatur Rarität This version is a bottleKirin introduced this pure malt whisky to the Japanese market in the 1980s. Only select malt whiskies from the Fuji Gotemba distillery were used. The term "single malt" didn't exist in Japan at that time. It wasn't introduced until the 1990s. The bottle and outer packaging show signs of use and age!