Scarlet Aperitivo Bitter Liqueur (70cl)

Scarlet is an Italian-style red bitter made entirely in Japan by Iseya Distillery, founded in 2021 by Tatsuya Motonaga near Lake Sagami in Kanagawa Prefecture. It uses twenty-five botanicals, almost entirely estate-grown without pesticides and with minimal intervention, including lemon balm, golden berry sprouts, sage, angelica root, licorice, cinnamon, jasmine flowers, blood orange peel, ginseng, Japanese pampas grass, sorrel and yuzu. Wormwood and yomogi provide the bittering backbone. The botanicals are macerated in neutral sugarcane spirit, sweetened, rested in stainless steel, naturally coloured with cochineal, then bottled, labelled and wax-sealed by hand.