The Mars Shinshu Mars 2013 Cask #1664

700ml / 58.9%

Single Malt

$453

A cooked mash, grainy sweetness emerges from Cask 1664, a 2013 vintage bourbon barrel single cask from Mars Shinshu in Nagano, bottled at a substantial 58.9% cask strength for an event release via the distillery in 2016, the three years in active American oak stamping this one firmly with wood.

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SKU JP1039 Categories Japanese Single Malt, Japanese Whisky, Mars, Whiskey

Description

The Mars 2013 Cask 1664 is a single cask single malt from Mars Shinshu, the Hombo Shuzo distillery at Miyada in Nagano's Central Alps, distilled in 2013 and bottled after three years in a bourbon barrel for an event-market release in 2016. Event-only expressions from the distillery tend to offer direct, unfiltered access to individual cask character, with the bottler's selection the primary variable.

At 58.9% cask strength, Cask 1664 delivers a grainy sweetness typical of young bourbon barrel maturation, with cooked mash as the defining note alongside the expected wood tannin and light vanilla. The bourbon barrel at this age is dominant and direct; the clean Nagano mountain character is present beneath but secondary to the cask's contribution. An event-market bottling for those who want an unvarnished early-phase document from the revived Mars Shinshu.