Distilia 2025 in a Nutshell

2025 - The Year of Icons

If you know Distilia, you know we are not about volume - we are about intent.
Yet despite our craft-scale philosophy, 2025 was a remarkably full year, defined by carefully curated releases, ambitious collaborations, and a growing universe of interconnected spirits projects.

Rather than a traditional catalogue, our 2025 portfolio reads more like a curated exhibition:
virtues and sins, Japanese Mizunara and Arabian horses, Catawiki florals and Tokyo bar culture - all anchored by serious liquid, long ageing, and uncompromising cask selection.

In the coming weeks, we’ll take a closer look at each release individually. Some expressions are still available - but quantities are extremely limited.

And one more thing: beyond bespoke bottlings, high-end collectible bottle trading remains part of our everyday world. 2025 saw several significant private and market deals - stories we’ll be sharing very soon.

The Virtues Series: Charity as a Counterforce

The Virtues series stands as the conceptual counterweight to The Sins. Its opening chapter, Charity, is centred on an extraordinary Savanna 2008 rhum agricole from La Réunion.

Distilled from fresh sugarcane juice on a Savalle copper column still and matured for 15 full tropical years in an ex-Cognac cask (#447), this rhum was bottled at a formidable 68.3% ABV, with no additives and only 113 bottles released.

Positioned as one of the rarest agricole rums Savanna has ever produced, Charity represents an “unvarnished soul” of the distillery. Beyond power, it tells a story: charity as restraint, generosity, and light in a world driven by excess. Tropical fruit intensity, deep oak development, and literary narrative turn this release into a moral axis around which much of Distilia’s 2025 work revolves.

The Sins Series: Envy, Vanity & Sloth

If The Virtues wears a halo, The Sins remains Distilia’s crown of thorns - a fully story-driven, multi-chapter spirits series created with Robert Bauer, where each release embodies one of the seven deadly sins.

Envy – Springbank 1994

A 30-year-old Springbank single malt from Campbeltown, matured in refill sherry cask #94 and bottled at 48.6% ABV. Limited to 112 bottles, Envy seduces through balance rather than weight: maritime salinity, wax, light stone fruit and honey. A whisky other bottles might truly envy.

Vanity – Lhéraud Cognac 1980

Vanity turns to Cognac, featuring a 44-year-old Petite Champagne eau-de-vie distilled in 1980 and bottled in 2025 at 46.3% ABV. Matured in French oak and limited to 188 bottles, it explores grandeur, reflection, and timeless elegance - rancio, dried fruit, and polished oak framed as self-regard made liquid.

Sloth – RRL Rhum Agricole 2012

Distilled on Marie-Galante using Müller bain-marie pot stills, Sloth matured 13 tropical years in ex-bourbon oak before bottling at 58.8% ABV. With only 185 bottles, this chapter meditates on patience and stillness: candied citrus, overripe mango, coffee and ginger - surrendering entirely to time.

Together, these releases define the scope of The Sins: whisky, Cognac and agricole rum sharing one conceptual stage, always single cask, cask strength, and deeply narrative-driven.

Collaborations: Clarendon 1995 × Bar Lamp × Rhum Attitude

Distilia’s collaborative strength is exemplified by the Clarendon 1995/2023, released with Rhum Attitude and Tokyo’s legendary Bar Lamp in Ginza.

Distilled in Jamaica in 1995, this pot still rum spent 23 years aging in the tropics before additional maturation and bottling at 64.7% ABV, reaching a total age of 27 years. With fewer than 200 bottles, it delivers unapologetic intensity: high-ester fruit, roasted oak, eucalyptus and mint.

Rather than morality or metaphor, this release celebrates bar culture itself - connecting Japanese cocktail heritage, European bottling expertise, and Jamaican rum tradition.

The Mizunara Series: Caribbean Rum Meets Japanese Aesthetics

The Mizunara Series bridges Caribbean distillation with Japanese craftsmanship and design.

Foursquare 1998/2024

A 25-year-old Barbados rum, selected with Silver Seal Whisky and East Asia Whisky, finished in rare Mizunara oak and Pedro Ximénez sherry casks, then bottled at 52.5% ABV. Notes of incense, campfire smoke, dried fruit and polished oak underline its East-West dialogue. Labels printed on Japanese washi paper complete the aesthetic vision.

New Yarmouth 1994/2025

The second chapter presents a 30-year-old Jamaican rum (NYC marque), aged over 13 years in the tropics before European maturation in ex-bourbon oak. Bottled at 65.9% ABV and limited to 210 bottles, it captures Jamaican intensity refined by time. Although ex-bourbon, its handmade washi label visually ties it back to the Mizunara concept.

Catawiki Floral Rum Series

For Catawiki, Distilia curates the Floral Rum Series, pairing single cask rums with emblematic Caribbean plants.

• TDL 2005 Pimenta Racemosa (Trinidad): 19 years old, 64.5% ABV, cask #2467, 244 bottles - aromatic, spicy, and structurally powerful.

• Long Pond 2007 Blue Mahoe (Jamaica): 66.5% ABV, high-ester and unapologetically bold, honouring Jamaica’s national tree as a symbol of resilience and craftsmanship.

These auction exclusives retain Distilia’s DNA - single cask, full proof - while engaging a broader collector audience.

Sketches of the Past: Horses and Heritage

Sketches of the Past – Horses is Distilia’s most historically rooted project. Inspired by Count Wacław Rzewuski, a 19th-century Polish orientalist famed for his Arabian horse illustrations, the series pairs cultural legacy with exceptional aged rum.

Featuring a Long Pond 1983 and an Enmore 1985, both well into their thirties, each bottle carries a reproduction of Rzewuski’s equine artwork - turning spirit, paper and illustration into a tangible fragment of history.

Distilia 2025 in One Line

Taken together, Distilia’s 2025 portfolio defines the brand’s identity:
high-age, single-cask, cask-strength spirits across rum, whisky and Cognac; strong literary and visual storytelling; and collaborations stretching from Catawiki and RumX to Ginza’s Bar Lamp and Japanese washi artisans.

Less about releasing bottles - more about building a connected universe that collectors can follow chapter by chapter, sin by sin, sketch by sketch.