Mars Shinshu The Lucky Cat "Choco" Blended Whisky Yamanashi Prefecture Koval is the first distillery

Koval is the first distillery in Chicago since the mid-1800s

Did anyone say smoky Old Fashioned

and bottling

Growing to become the second largest producer of Whiskies in Japan

Andrew Webber and Darek Bell own and run the Corsair Artisan Distilleries (there are two of them) located in Bowling Green

Mars Shinshu The Lucky Cat "Choco" Blended Whisky Yamanashi Prefecture Koval is the first distillery1 of 1,140 lovely bottles, dedicated to a cat named Choco. Mars Shinshu has taken Japanese Whisky to new heights, literally. Whisky making at 798 meters (just over 2,600 feet), Shinshu is the highest Whisky distillery in Japan. Mars Shinshu is owned by the Hombo's, a family of Japanese brewers that have been in the business of distillation for over a century. They eventually took a shot at Whisky, making it a part of their production in 1949. They