"Papillon"

Whisky Review

[Review] MARSMALT Le Papillon Triple Cask “A.ganesa”

Papillon series from Hombo Shuzo. MARSMALT Le Papillon Triple Cask "A.ganesa", features and how to purchase. Price: 15,400 yen (tax included).
New Release

[Lottery sales until July 15, 2024] MARS MALT Le Papillon Triple Cask “A.ganesa”

MARS MALT Le Papillon Triple Cask "A.ganesa". Lottery sales begin from Honbo Shuzo Mars Whisky. Features, price, and how to purchase. Price is 15,400 yen (tax included).
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[Review] Mars Malt Le Papillon Single Cask “P.memnon” – features, taste, list price, where to buy?

Papillon series from Honbo Brewery. Mars Malt Le Papillon Single Cask "P.memnon". Price: 15,400 yen (tax included). Features and how to purchase.
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[Review] Mars Malt Le Papillon Double Cask ‘Miyamasijimi’.

Mars Malt Le Papillon Double Cask "Miyama Shijimi" will be released by Hombo Shuzo in November 2023. Limited edition of 818 bottles of single malt Japanese whiskey vatted with two sherry cask aged casks distilled at Shinshu distillery.
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[Review] MARSMALT Le Papillon Double Cask L.amurensis

Distilled at Mars Shinshu Distillery in December 2015. Bottled in February 2022 with vatting of two barrels, one with cherry wood for the mirror plate and the other aged in bourbon barrels.
New Release

[Lottery sales until March 23, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.] MARSMALT Le Papillon Double Cask L.amurensis

The 14th edition of the Papillon series, using malt base spirit distilled in 2015. Vatting of two barrels, one with cherry wood for the mirror plate and the other aged in bourbon barrels.
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[Review] MARSMALT Le Papillon C.brillantinus

This whisky is non-peated and has no peculiarities, and you can enjoy the full flavor of plum wine barrel aging. It has a sweet, sour, and astringent taste.
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[Review] Mars Malt Le Papillon Monk Swallowtail

Mars Malt Le Papillon" is a series that uses butterflies that live in Japan as a motif to express the beauty of Japan's seasonal climate and natural environment that forms the maturing environment for whiskey. This is the eleventh in the series, and the first in the series to use malt raw material distilled at the Mars Tsunuki distillery.
Whisky Distillery

Mars Komagatake Distillery(Hombo Shuzo)|Detailed information about the distillery

Founded in 1872. Hombo Shuzo, a general liquor manufacturer including shochu and wine, revived the distillery in 2011 after it was closed in 1922 due to the whisky depression. Kiichiro Iwai, known as the man who sent Masataka Taketsuru, the father of Japanese whiskey, to Scotland, was once involved in the distillery as an advisor. It is also known for being the first distillery in Japan to exchange sake with other distilleries, something that had never been done before.
New Release

[Lottery sales until 10:00 a.m. on May 26, 2023] Mars Maltage Cosmo Wine Cask Finish 2023 (Hombo Shuzo)

A blended malt whisky in which "Mars Maltage Cosmo", which expresses complexity and depth by vatting multiple malt wines, is additionally aged (finished) in empty casks used for red wine.