Salameh sensed it was his “mission and obligation to make use of the pure sources in Romania to supply a premium single malt whisky” for all to take pleasure in.
Introducing Carpathian Single Malt, the first-ever single malt whisky produced completely in Romania. Perfected at Alexandrion Saber 1789 Distilleries (alongside the Carpathian Mountains), the whisky combines 100% malted barley and pure Sub-Carpathian water; double-distilled, aged in first-fill white American oak barrels, and completed in ex-Romanian wine* casks.
Why did it take so lengthy? “Perhaps no one had the braveness to do this.”
Nawaf Salameh, founder and chairman of Alexandrion Group.
“[It’s] made utilizing Romanian barley—top-of-the-line on the earth—as Romania is [ranked] high 20 producers of cereals on the earth,” provides Allan Anderson, grasp distiller behind Scotch manufacturers like Loch Lomond and Aberargie. “The water from the Sub-Carpathian hills can also be a key ingredient. Few folks know that Romania holds over 60% of Europe’s mineral water sources, and Romania ranks fifth within the E.U. when it comes to pure mineral water manufacturing.”
Carpathian Single Malt is bottled at 46% alcohol with out synthetic taste, colorant additions, and chill filtration.
“It’s finest loved neat, on the rocks, or by including a little bit of chilly water to launch the flavors, because the product is bought at 92-proof,” Anderson suggests. Additionally… “with mates,” he chuckles.
Three cask-aged expressions of the primary Romanian single malt arrive stateside to pick markets (New York, New Jersey, Florida).
- Fetească Neagră Cask End – Clove and candies on the nostril, with plantain and pineapple on the palate. ”Feteasă Neagră is probably the most well-known Romanian wine selection. It has a spicy, smoky fruit character and good tannin construction that offers the gorgeous, pure [amber] shade to our whisky,” Salameh shares.
- Madeira Cask End – Clear, copper shade; scents (and sense of style) embrace honey and raisin.
- Pinot Noir Unique – Raisin and raspberry spherical out the tasting.
“[Now] we put Romania on the map of single malt whisky producers,” Salameh concludes.
*Romania has greater than 2,000 years of wine manufacturing historical past and is without doubt one of the largest wine producers on the earth. Alexandrion Group turns into one in all few world firms to make the most of casks from their very own wine manufacturing amenities for single malt maturation.
