This is a blended malt whisky made by exchanging raw materials from Shinshu Mars Distillery and Chichibu Distillery. This is the first initiative of its kind in the Japanese whisky industry. Honbo Shuzo has announced information on the release of the new product at the end of April 2021.Japanese whisky lovers will be wowed by this product, which is a joint project with Ichirose Malt. The whisky was made possible through an exchange of malt liquor between Mars Whisky and Ichirose Malt. The malt liquor was distilled in April 2015, exchanged, matured at each distillery, and then vatted for commercialization. The Chichibu distillery, which started operations in 2008, and the Honbo Shuzo Mars Shinshu distillery, which restarted distilling in 2011.The distillery was started in the hope that the exchange of raw spirits, which is a common practice in Scotland, could be realized in Japan.The project, launched by two highly motivated distilleries in pursuit of new possibilities for Japanese whisky, began six years ago in April 2015 with the exchange of new pots of raw whisky from both distilleries.The Chichibu distillery is rich in nature, with the benefit of the Arakawa River and the temperature difference unique to the basin, while the Mars Shinshu distillery is surrounded by a beautiful forest at the foot of Mount Komagatake in the Central Alps.The raw materials matured in these two different environments are blended in each place and expressed as a new character.The soft and transparent fruity taste, and the layers of aroma carefully layered little by little, create a depth that can be felt slowly over time.It is bottled with high alcohol content, non-chill filtered, and natural color to take advantage of its characteristics.This is a bottle full of the charm and potential of Japanese whisky, which has many possibilities.