"MARS MALT Le Papillon" is a series that expresses the beauty of Japan's diverse climate and environment that shapes the maturation of whisky, using butterflies living in Japan as a motif.
The first release features the "Great Blue Emperor" butterfly that inhabits Nagano Prefecture. Imagining its beautiful flight adorned with vibrant blue wings, a single cask of fragrant and elegant malt spirit was carefully selected.
This single cask whisky was distilled in 2012 in the cool environment of Shinshu and matured in American white oak casks. Emphasizing the flavors of the cask, it is bottled at natural cask strength and non-chill filtered.

K. Hombo: "The beautiful sky-blue butterfly I encountered in Shinshu in 1973 turned out to be the Great Blue Emperor. It is said that this butterfly is now on the brink of extinction. I hope to see that beautiful blue flight once again in the nature of Shinshu. I selected a mellow type of malt spirit distilled at Shinshu Distillery in 2012. This is a cask dedicated to the Great Blue Emperor I met in Shinshu."