Komagatake Of. Tsunuki Aging bottled 2020

  • 54% |
  • 0.70L

This whisky was distilled at the Shinshu distillery but matured at Tsunuki, Mars other distillery in Kyushu. Mars has access to various sites for maturatio…More info

Description du lot

  • Distillery: Mars - Shinshu
  • Appellation: Single Malt Whisky
  • Country/Region: Japan Honshu - Nagano
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 into-neck
  • State: 1 very slightly marked label, 1 very slightly scuffed label, 1 Original box very slightly damaged

Lot presentation
Komagatake Of. Tsunuki Aging bottled 2020

Cuvée presentation

This whisky was distilled at the Shinshu distillery but matured at Tsunuki, Mars other distillery in Kyushu. Mars has access to various sites for maturation, including Shinshu, Tsunuki and Yakushima, and each site has a different influence on the whisky’s development.

The distillery Mars - Shinshu

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.

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Detailed characteristics

  • Distillery: Mars - Shinshu
  • Bottler: Of.
  • Appellation: Single Malt Whisky
  • Country/Region: Japan Honshu - Nagano
  • Alcohol percentage: 54 %
  • Volume: 0.70L
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 into-neck
  • State: 1 very slightly marked label, 1 very slightly scuffed label, 1 Original box very slightly damaged
  • Case: Yes
  • Origin: Trade
  • Recoverable VAT: Yes
  • Color: Brown

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