Mars 'Iwai 45' Blended Japanese Whisky, Japan California SOIL: Very poor soils over

SOIL: Very poor soils over pure granite rock

The blend of the two is a wine that has even more perfume and racy mountain fruit than previous iterations

But the basic material is very good

and is bottled without being fined or filtered

The wine is aged for 10 months in terracotta

Mars 'Iwai 45' Blended Japanese Whisky, Japan California SOIL: Very poor soils overThe Hombo family, founder of Mars, began producing shochu in 1909, expanding their portfolio over the years to eventually include their most popular product, whisky. They obtained their whisky license in 1949 with the help of their advisor, Mr. Kiichiro Iwai, an icon in the rise of Japanese whisky. Currently, Mars has two distilleries and an additional aging site. Mars Shinshu, the main distillery, is tucked away at 2,625 ft in the Nagano Alps, making