Gentle and somewhat smoky, with a small amount of sherry cask coming by, this single malt from Mars’s Hombo Shuzo distillery presents an pleasant lesson in Japanese single malt. He employed Masataka Taketsuru, a chemist who had analyzed distilling in Scotland, to help build his initial distillery in Yamazaki (a https://energydrinksandwhiskey.com/product-category/japanese-whisky/