Mars Iwai Whisky 750ml
A rich gold whisky with light, sweet and floral fragrances with notes of sweet pear and dark cacao. It has a beautiful soft body with underlying flavours of dried fig and allspice with a soft malt finish and hints of ginger cookies and honey milk. Aged in bourbon, sherry, American white oaks.
ALC/VOL: 40%
Mars Maltage ‘Cosmo’
Wine Cask Finish 700ml
Mars Cosmo is aged in Sherry, Bourbon, and American white oak casks.
‘COSMO’ is the name of a mountain in the Japan Central Alps close to the Mars Shinshu distillery.
The shiny ruby red colour is extracted from red wine cask. On the nose, fruitiness and warm spiciness are present.
It has a soft and round mouthfeel and Umami from the red wine cask interact very well with Cosmo’s ripe fruit character with vanilla and cinnamon flavours as a result of further maturation in red wine casks.
A long finish with elegant tannins and black tea.
ALC/VOL: 43%
Mars Komagatake Single Malt Whisky
‘Edition’ 2021 700ml
Mars Shinshu distillery is located near Mt. Komagatake and is at the top peak of the Kiso mountain range of the Japanese Alps in Nagano Prefecture at around 800m above sea level.
Pure mineral water from the mountain is used for whisky making and the distillery is surrounded by beautiful clean air.
Short hot summers encourage maturation, and long cold winter gives whisky slow and gentle maturation as well as a break.
Selected single malt are blended to create this 2021 edition.
Whisky aged mainly in Bourbon and Sherry casks makes up the expression of this whisky. Ripe fruits note such as quince, apricot, and banana, and vanilla on the nose.
The palate shows the sweetness of honey, melon, and ripe persimmon fruits, also the hazelnut character from Sherry cask. Smooth and elegant finish.
ALC/VOL: 48%
Mars Tsunuki Single Malt Whisky
2022 700ml
Tsunuki Distillery is the second distillery of Mars Whisky and is in the Kagoshima Prefecture in the south of Japan and was built in 2016. The location of this distillery is also the birthplace of their business Hombo Shuzo Co. more than 100 years ago.
The name tells you this single malt is distilled and matured at Tsunuki, and this is its 3rd release after Tsunuki The First and Tsunuki Peated. Beautiful pure water is used, and the natural environment with day and night-time temperature changes has a considerable and unique influence on this whisky.
The majority of this single malt was matured in bourbon barrels. It has an amber colour. On the nose, fresh sweetness such as lemon cake, black tea, and a whiff of smoke at first, followed by cacao, azuki beans, butter toast, and milk candy. Bitter and sweet fruitiness like Orangette on the palate, and finish is long and complex with generous sweetness.
This whisky is non-chill filtered to keep all good flavours.
ALC/VOL: 50%
Mars Tsunuki ‘The Peated’
Single Malt Whisky 2020 700ml
Tsunuki Distillery is the second distillery of Mars Whisky and is in the Kagoshima Prefecture in the south of Japan and was built in 2016. The location of this distillery is also the birthplace of their business Hombo Shuzo Co. more than 100 years ago.
The name tells you this single malt is distilled and matured at Tsunuki, and this is its 2nd release after Tsunuki The First.
Beautiful pure water is used, and the natural environment with day and night-time temperature change has a considerable and unique influence on this whisky.
This single malt was matured in bourbon barrels and is a showcase of peat character. It has shiny amber colour as a sign of age. The nose shows sweet scents like banana, honey and custard with gorgeous peat smokiness. Clean warm textured mouthfeel is followed by barley and crisp apple, and the finish is long and complex with peat and hints of yellow fruits.
This whisky is non-chill filtered to keep all good flavours.
ALC/VOL: 50%