NewsBy Eloise FeildenPernod Ricard-owned Japanese gin brand Ki No Bi has announced its £21.8 million distillery, located near Kyoto, is now operational. Now, the Japanese gin brand will host the grand opening of its new distillery on 7 October 2025. The Ki No Bi distillery, located in Kyoto Prefecture’s city of Kameoka, is powered without the use of fossil fuels. Murielle Arnaud Dessenis, global VP marketing gins at Pernod Ricard, called the opening a “historic milestory for our luxury Japanese gin gem”. Hiroyuki Nagai, operations director at The Kyoto Distillery, explained: “We could have installed one large still at the new facility, but we chose not to because we believe in maintaining our meticulous distillation process.