Fernet, a famously bitter style of Italian digestivo, is one of Scarlet founder Tatsuya Motonaga’s most beloved amaro categories. With roughly half of its thirty botanicals grown onsite at Iseya Distillery’s Kanagawa farm, this Fernet is a true labor of love. Because the use of gentian is restricted in Japan, botanicals such as chicory and aloe are used to provide the expected bracing bitterness, offering a fresh interpretation of a classic category. Other botanicals include palo santo, , raspberry flower, elderflower, galangal, sorrel, cinnamon, mint, rooibos, and cinnamon.
All are macerated in a combination of aged and unaged sugar can spirit, and the aged spirit was held for a minimum of 1yr in ex-Chichibu whisky casks. Lightly sweetened naturally with prized Okinawan raw sugar cane and Japanese beet sugar.