This 26 year old Japanese Whisky... from Mars... heard these are hit or miss, with misses mostly coming from those non-conventional bottle shapes. Please let his be a hit!
Nose: a faint hint of peat, soured milk, paper, expired wood, burnt bread crust, not too offensive, but almost there.
Palate: weird, initial palate is a weird sourness like a pickled sour curd, mid palate builds up to milk curds/spoiled milk, gaseous, light road asphalt, what in the world is going on?!?!, back palate has the expired smoked wood come out, young tofu. Damn, why'd I try this?
Finish: medium, more of the same weirdness.
What the heck happened?! I am grateful to have tried these rare, older Mars, but man... does give me street cred, or at least I hope it does. I like to throw away money, might as well make it my hobby.
Image courtesy of Eric Yee.
🇭🇰 🇺🇸(LA, SF) -> 🇯🇵 (京都, 東京) -> 🇰🇷 (서울, 부산)