Mars Lamigo Monkey

Mars Lamigo Monkey is a blended whisky released in 2019 for the Taiwanese market, a collaboration between Hombo Shuzo and the Lamigo Monkeys, a Taiwanese baseball team. As a blend, it draws on both malt and grain components from within the Hombo Shuzo group, including Mars Shinshu in Nagano and Tsunuki in Kagoshima, matured in Ex-Bourbon casks.

The Ex-Bourbon maturation lends the blend a soft, accessible character with vanilla sweetness and light grain roundness, qualities well suited to the sports sponsorship context of this release. Bottled at cask strength at 48%, it delivers more presence than the standard bottling range while remaining broadly approachable. The Lamigo Monkey name and Taiwanese market context make this an unusual and collectible entry in the Hombo Shuzo lineup, tied closely to a specific cultural moment in Taiwanese baseball.