Scarlet Aperitivo Bitter Liqueur Iseya Distillery Japan 700ml Birthday Exceptional concentration

Exceptional concentration

Gentle spice rounds the aromatic picture — present and warm without the assertiveness of higher-rye expressions

with particular attention to how well fruit

with a long and savory close

and matured in a combination of American bourbon barrels and Spanish oloroso sherry casks to build foundational malt sweetness and toasted spice

Scarlet Aperitivo Bitter Liqueur Iseya Distillery Japan 700ml Birthday Exceptional concentrationIn 2020, Tatsuya Motonaga's career as one of Asia's most respected botanically driven bartenders shaped at Tokyo's legendary Bar Benfiddich and Taipei's WA SHU was upended by forces entirely outside his control. What he did with that disruption became the story of one of the most genuinely exciting new spirits to emerge from Japan in the past decade. Motonaga set out across Europe, visiting more than seventy distilleries, immersing himself in the