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Mars Shinshu Distillery
La Mars Shinshu Distillery was founded in 1985 in the heart of the Japanese Alps, the distillery has spent years of tension and radical transformations, closed and then reopened in 2011. The founder of Shinshu Mars Distillery was Hombo Shuzo, the distillery was managed by Kiichiro Iwai who worked with Taketsuru before he left for Scotland, with plans to open the first distillery of Whisky single malt in Japan, but this dream was interrupted by the deep financial difficulties of the distillery and on his return from Scotland Taketsuru went into partnership with Shinjiro Torii, owner of the Yamazaki distillery. Hombo meanwhile obtained the license to produce the whisky in 1949 and began by imitating i whisky by Taketsuru, to then over time create its own style that today distinguishes the distillery that draws for its blended from its ancient stocks.