Cherry cola, milk chocolate, and vanilla cookie dough on the nose, with raisins adding depth. The palate is rich and thick — dried mandarin orange, wine grape, tannic bitterness alongside chocolate orange and baking spice. Cask-derived sweetness and a faint herbal bitterness carry through the long finish. The 10th edition in Mars Whisky's Lucky Cat series, inspired by President Hombo's two cats: May, age 20, representing the depth of Pedro Ximénez sherry casks, and Hana, younger and gentler, representing the elegance of port. Distilled at Mars Shinshu Distillery in Nagano Prefecture — at 800 meters elevation, it is Japan's highest-altitude whisky distillery, where dramatic temperature swings drive a distinctive maturation profile.
