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Japanese Whisky Evaluate: Mars Komagatake 1988 Cask #557 26 Yr Outdated
This Komagatake was distilled in 1988 and bottled in 2014. The whisky was aged in American white oak and yielded 347 bottles.
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Tzvi (Todd) Wiesel is the Co-Founder & CEO of BAXUS, a whisky investor and dealer, targeted on nice and uncommon bottles and casks.
A uncommon single cask launch from a once-shuttered Japanese distillery. The Shinshu Mars Distillery started distilling in 1985 earlier than closing in 1992. The distillery was revived once more in 2011. This cask was distilled in 1988 and bottled in 2014. The whisky was aged in American white oak and yielded 347 bottles. As with most Japanese whiskies from that period it has grow to be more and more more durable to search out as a lot of them have already been opened and consumed.
Pine needles, forest flooring, malt.
Dry cedar, malted barley, black pepper, actually a lovely array of savory cooking spices and a touch of campfire smoke.
The end is lengthy and offers every little thing you’d need from a uncommon Japanese single cask of this age, prolonged oaky end, dried apricots and stone fruit.
This isn’t a bottle you’ll discover available but when given the chance is certainly one price looking for out to attempt. For somebody aware of solely the most important Japanese whisky manufacturers and customary proofed-down releases this one would possibly come as a shock as it’s harking back to a standard Scottish single malt.
Tzvi (Todd) Wiesel
Tzvi (Todd) Wiesel is the Co-Founder and CEO of BAXUS, an on-chain whisky market. With years of expertise within the business, Todd is keen about whisky investmemt and buying and selling, in addition to attempting new whiskies wherever potential. Todd is the pinnacle of our US critiques staff and is predicated in New York.
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