The Next Great Japanese Whisky Is Here, And It s Affordable
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Where it’s from: Mars crafts most of its whiskey in the Nagano Alps, making it Japan’s highest-elevation distillery. But they have another distillery along the humid coast in the south. As well, they
also age some of their hooch in a building on a Natural Heritage Site in a subtropical jungle.
The three expressions we tried from Mars Whisky
High Road Spirits
Why we’re drinking this: The demand for Japanese whisky has exploded over the years. But so have prices. Finding smaller producers Mars is the fourth-largest in Japan but much less known than, say, Suntory or Nikka is important for the future of the category.