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Komagatake Of. Double Cellars bottled 2019 LMDW ----(amber)
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Komagatake Of. Double Cellars bottled 2019 LMDW
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Japan, Nagano. Distillery operational. Owner: Hombo Shuzo Co. Ltd.

Founded in 1985, Mars-Shinshu had been a distillery in-the-making since 1918. Its history has something of the “back to the future” about it. In 1918, Kijiro Iwai, director of Settsu Shozu, sent Masataka Taketsuru to Scotland to learn the basics of distillation. On his return in 1920, he found his employer at the head of a company that had gone adrift. Settsu Shozu was unable to follow through on its plans for a new distillery and in the end it was Shinjiro Torii (Suntory) that benefited from Taketsuru's experience first, using it to found the Yamazaki distillery. In 1960, Kijiro Iwai's son-in-law, then director of the Hombo company, decided to take up the challenge. Drawing on the experience of his father-in-law and Taketsuru's notes, he began distilling a robust, smoky malt at one of his wine and brandy production units in Yamanashi. Quite unsuited to the tastes of Japanese consumers at the time who were accustomed to more subtle flavours, it was a commercial failure. In 1978, however, he made a second attempt at the Kagoshima site, before finally deciding to open Mars-Shinshu in 1985. Caught up in the upheaval of a crisis in whisky consumption in Japan, the distillery ceased production in 1992. In 2011, following major restoration work, Mars-Shinshu then opened once again, this time for the long run.

About the wine

Mars Komagatake Double Cellars is a blend of whiskies distilled in Shinshu 2014 but aged in two separate locations, the first, Shinshu, at an altitude of 800 metres in the centre of Japan, in bourbon and sherry American oak casks; and the second, Yakushuma, in the very south of Japan, in bourbon casks. The unique casks and maturation conditions in each location have had a clear influence on the final blend. This edition, which is the second Double Cellars, was bottled in 2019.

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Characteristics of the producer and cuvée

Region: Japan - Honshu Nagano

Producers and wineries: Mars - Shinshu

Colour: amber

Appellation: Komagatake

Viticulture: conventional More information....

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