Mars Maltage Cosmo Wine Cask Finish Blended Malt Whisky (70cl)

Mars Cosmo is aged in Sherry, Bourbon, and American white oak casks. Cosmo, is the name of a mountain in the Japan Central Alps, closed to the Mars Shinshu distillery.

This is a limited bottling of Cosmo, which has been extra-seasoned in red wine casks. Shiny ruby red colour is extracted from red wine casks. On the nose, fruitiness and warm spiciness are present. It has a soft round mouth feel, and Umami from the red wine cask interact very well with Cosmo's ripe fruit character with vanilla and cinnamon flavours as a result of further maturation in red wine casks. A long finish with elegant tannins and black tea. 

The Finer Details

Style - Japanese Whisky
Country - Japan
Bottle Size - 700ml
ABV - 43%

For the 2020 edition of Cosmo blended malt, Mars Whisky offers a version finished in wine casks of red wine from the Yamanashi vineyards for a result showing a round and pleasant honeyed sweetness balanced by spicy and tannic notes acquired during the refining.

Mars Cosmo Wine Cask Finish is therefore a blend of several single malts with distinct characteristics aged in Bourbon barrels and then finished for one year in red wine casks. Complex and rich in aromas, its fruity nose brings notes of fig, dried banana chips, apricot tea to which the sweetness of honey and brown sugar are added on the palate. The finish is rather silky and delicate while revealing a more tannic side.