Whisky Reviews

    Mars whisky has always had a long held appreciation for its locality - it won't take you too long to find numerous series dedicated to the loc...

  One of the great opportunities for world whiskymakers ie. those operating outside of Scotland, has always been the freedom to mature whiskies in...

  Mars Maltage "Cosmo", b.2020, Wine cask finish, 43% abv.Nose: smells like a dishwasher sponge, a weird wax, moldy crayons, caramel butter, synth...

    Mars Komagatake Limited Edition, b.2019, 48% abv.Says it was distilled in Miyada, Nagano? Drank in 2020.Nose: a good amount of apple cider, fr...

    Mars Maltage "Cosmo", b.2019, Manzanilla Sherry Cask Finish, 42% abv.Interesting that it's blended but also finished in manzanilla. These malt...

    Iwai Tradition, Wine cask finish, 40% abv.Iwai Traditions are blends from Mars Shinshu distillery. A mashbill of 70% malted barley and 30% cor...

    This 3 year old Japanese whisky was bottled for La Maison du Whisky. Finally got to try it many, many moons ago at Whiskytalk Fukuoka 2019.Nos...

    Had this at a special tasting seminar by Stefan van Eycken at Whiskytalk 2019. This tasting ended up going through a bunch of ghost series bot...

  Another famous bottling series from Whisky Talk, the Phoenix and the Sun series. Interestingly, not Komagatake... I wonder what is the real diff...

    This 26 year old Japanese Whisky... from Mars... heard these are hit or miss, with misses mostly coming from those non-conventional bottle sha...

    One of the legendary San-in.Nose: white chocolate, sweet cream, squeezed grapes, dried strawberries, prunes, syrup, a little floral, honey and...

    An IB Komagatake? Is ePower considered an IB? 594 bottles for a single cask seems massive.Nose: complex, light bodied, very grassy and vegetat...