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Mars Malt Le Papillon Monkiageha Double Cask
Mars Malt Le Papillon” is a series of whisky bottles that uses a butterfly motif native to Japan to express the splendor of Japan's seasonal climate and its natural environment, which forms the environment in which whisky is matured.
The theme of this product is the Ainomidori-shijimi, which inhabits deciduous broad-leaved forests in mountainous areas where trees mainly belonging to the beech family grow. To evoke the especially beautiful golden-green wings of the zephyrs, which are called “jewels of the forest,” a cask of non-peated, original sake matured in the same barrel used to mature ume wine was carefully selected.
This single cask whiskey is a gem of a single cask whiskey, bottled at natural cask strength and non-chill filtered from the original malt liquor distilled in 2015 at the Mars Komagatake Distillery (formerly known as the Mars Shinshu Distillery).
The “Ainomid Greenfinch,” or “Jewel of the Forest,” is a species of butterfly in the Zephyrus family. It makes its home in the canopy of trees and is active only in the early morning, making it a difficult butterfly for young insectivores. I first encountered this butterfly during a summer vacation in Shinshu with my grandmother when I was in elementary school. On that day, I got up early in the morning to look for stag beetles gathered in the sap. I found a small, golden-green butterfly in the meadow beside a U-shaped bend in the forest road. The scenery that should have been familiar to me every day was transformed just by waking up a little earlier. The depth of my daily explorations increased, and my “new encounters” skyrocketed: single malt whiskey distilled at the Shinshu distillery in 2015 and aged in empty casks used to mature plum wine, surely there must be “new encounters.”
The photo and butterfly description on the label are by Shuichi Ogino.
