Kagoshima 1984 Sherry Cask 25 Year Old 50cl

An incredibly rare bottle of single malt from the silent distillery of Kagoshima. The distillery itself was located outside Kagoshima city besides the Sakurajima volcano. It was owned by Hombo Mars and ran for a short period of time between 1953 and 1985.

This whisky was disrtilled in 1984 and aged for 25 years in ex-Sherry casks.

Mars Whisky is the whisky-producing subsidiary of Hombo Shuzo, a renowned shochu producer in Japan. Founded by Kiichiro Iwai, the company opened its first distillery, Shinshu, in 1985. Iwai is famed for being the man responsible for dispatching Masataka Taketsuru to Scotland, and it is no coincidence that the Shinshu stills are similar to those at Longmorn, also replicated by Taketsuru at his Yoichi distillery. Shinshu was closed in 1992 due to lack of demand, but the fortunes of Japanese whisky soon turned, and Mars Whisky re-opened it again in 2011, and established second distillery called Tsunuki in 2016. Nowadays it is one of the major players in the Japanese whisky market, bottling a number of sought after blends, as well as their single malt brand, Komagatake.