Single Malt Whisky, 'Komagatake Bakemono #04 - Single Cask 4057'

• Limited edition single cask single malt Japanese whisky produced at Komagatake Distillery (fka Mars Shinshu) in Nagano, Japan
• The 4th release in the Mars Bakemono series, which highlights illustrations from the famous Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll, an illustrated text (emaki) from Japan’s Edo Period (17th–19th centuries) by an unknown artist featuring various yōkai (magical creatures from Japanese folklore)
• Cask #4057
• 100% unpeated malted barley twice distilled in copper pot stills
• Aged 6 years in a new American white oak hogshead; distilled January 2018 and bottled January 2024
• No added coloring
• Non-chill filtered; 60% ABV

The fourth release in Mars’s Bakemono series, and the second to come from the Komagatake Distillery, features Sara-hebi, a serpent with the head of a woman. One of the more nebulous characters in Japanese mythology, Sara-hebi is thought to share narrative origins with the nure-onna (wet woman) or ubume (birthing woman), representing a mysterious and tragic spirit that often symbolizes the dangers surrounding childbirth and has dubious intentions toward those who cross her path.