Sold outJan 2026In short · Mars Shinshu (Japan), 5 years.
“Smoke from smouldering coconut shells wafted through the branches of oak trees, bringing light notes of tobacco and leather.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 159.1 is a single cask of Mars Shinshu, in Japan, 5 years old, bottled at 56.4%, released in the Jan 2026 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 159.x is from Mars Shinshu.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
High in the Japanese Alps at Miyata, Nagano, some 800 metres up, Hombo Shuzo, a shochu house from Kagoshima, built Mars Shinshu in 1985 with stills brought from Yamanashi. Demand faltered and production stopped for years, but it was revived in 2011, and its single malts, sold as Komagatake, now thrive in the cool mountain air. Clean, fruity and gently malty. Hombo's.