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$356
An Oloroso sherry hogshead finish lifts this six year old Mars Shinshu single cask from the 2017 vintage, bottled at cask strength by La Maison du Whisky for France, with the dried fruit and spice depth of sherry wood over the distillery’s clean Nagano base.
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Mars Shinshu, owned by Hombo Shuzo and distilling in Miyada, Nagano, produced this single malt in 2017. After six years the spirit was drawn from an Oloroso sherry hogshead, a cask type that departs from the bourbon barrels more commonly seen across the distillery's independent releases, and bottled at cask strength at 57% by La Maison du Whisky as a France-market single cask.
Oloroso sherry hogsheads typically give dried dark fruit, raisin and gentle spice, enriching a spirit and deepening its colour considerably. Where the distillery's bourbon-cask releases tend toward vanilla and fresh fruit, the sherry wood here steers the six year old toward a more complex, darker profile. At 57% the bottling has the weight to carry the wood's influence without losing its structure.
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