Mars Tsunuki 4 Year Old 2017 Single 1st Fill Bourbon Single Cask #124 Single Malt Japanese Whisky LMDW Exclusive (2021) 70cl

1 of only 200 bottles from a single 1st Fill bourbon cask.

This edition has been released to commemorate the 65th anniversary of La Maison du Whisky. This is the very first Single Cask Project of experimenting with different maturation sites of whisky distilled at Tsunuki. From a single run of new make spirit at Tsunuki, the spirit was placed into three Bourbon barrels. One barrel was aged at the Tsunuki site, one at Yakushima and one at Shinshu for about 4 years. This whisky was distilled in 2017 and comes from cask No.124 matured at Tsunuki.

About Mars

Japan's highest distillery, Shinshu was built by the whisky division of the Hombo Shuzo Co, known as Mars, in 1985. It is located in Miyada, a village in the Nagano Prefecture, and operated for seven years before being mothballed in 1992. Despite being relatively successful in their native market, Mars had not had the success of its competitors Nikka and Suntory on the global stage, and the struggling Japanese whisky market at the time forced the company's hand. In the subsequent years however, things began to improve, and Shinshu distillery was eventually re-opened in 2011. Mars bottles its single malt under the Komagatake brand, and have also opened a sister distillery called Tsunuki to provide for its popular blends.

60% ABV

70cl