Amaro" means "bitter" in Italian and is a generic term for liqueurs with a bitter taste. Today, amaro is a must-have item in cocktail culture as a luxury drink, but has a beautiful reddish liqueur ever existed in Japan?
Scarlet is the Japanese name for scarlet, an animal colour extracted from the cochineal shell beetle. More than 20 botanicals are used, based on Amaro recipes from the 1800s and other sources, but there is something very Japanese about this liqueur, probably because it uses herbaceous roots and tree bark from Japan. SCARLET is sure to bring i nnovation to the history of domestic liqueurs and the cocktail scene.

SCARLET The First is a special bottling that is not matured in oak barrels, allowing you to directly experience the flavour of the herbaceous roots and bark.

Scarlet is the Japanese name for scarlet, an animal colour extracted from the cochineal shell beetle.

The recipe is based on an Amaro recipe from the 1800s and uses more than 20 different botanicals, but it has a Japanese feel to it.
The reason why it has a somewhat Japanese flavour is probably because it uses herbaceous roots and tree bark from Japan.
SCARLET is sure to bring innovation to the history of domestic liqueurs and the cocktail scene.

SCARLET The First is not matured in oak barrels.
This is a special bottling that allows you to directly experience the taste of the herbaceous roots and bark.

Iseya Shuzo:Tatsuya Motonaga
After working at the malt Bar Caol Ila in Shibuya, worked at Bar Benfiddich in Shinjuku, Washu in Taiwan and Golden Promise's sister bar Whisky Cat in China. Later, during a tour of Europe, he visited 70 distilleries, including one in Scotland.
He experienced and witnessed the depth of the distillers and the way in which the local climate is used to produce alcohol or agriculture. He was particularly fascinated by the nature and character of the Swiss towns of Pontalier and Travail, on the border between France and Switzerland.