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September 16, 2022
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Extra Nordic whiskies
A couple of days in the past somebody well-placed advised me I ought to watch BB&R’s new ‘Thy’. I am sorry to say that I wasn’t even within the know of the existence of ‘Thy’, and that consequently, I felt disgrace. You be taught every single day…
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Thy 2019/2022 (57.6%, Berry Bros. & Rudd, Denmark, Nordic Casks #2, quarter cask, cask #258, 235 bottles) 
The younger Thy Distillery is situated within the north of Denmark, not removed from the ocean. Let’s have a look at if Thy is shy (bear in mind we have gained the Lousiest Joker Award on the World Whisky Awards). Color: white wine. Nostril: reasonably begins with some steel polish and notes of artisanal cachaça, and would go on with some pastis and aquavit (not saying aquavit as a result of we’re in Demark right here, I promise). Whiffs of untamed carrots and genepy too, maybe even crushed sugar beets… I discover this reasonably uncommon, however actually pretty. With water: maybe parsnips too, celeriac, and positively some type of pinewood smoke. Mouth (neat): very potent, actually smoky this time, but additionally with much more aniseed, caraway, fennel, liquorice… Did anybody ever attempt to make some smoked pastis? (yeah I do know pastis might smoke YOU, however that is one other story). With water: ah pretty certainly, very contemporary and much more on smoked herbs and root greens of all types. End: reasonably lengthy, smoky (not peaty), with some eggplants and a few rye within the aftertaste. Feedback: superior younger drop, very completely different and but not precisely deviant. Find it irresistible to seek out the variations within the distillate itself, and never within the casks which have been in use.
SGP:474 – 86 factors. |
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Stauning 2017/2022 (58.9%, Berry Bros. & Rudd, Denmark, Nordic Casks #2, barrel + moscatel hogshead, cask #6493, 254 bottles) 
Moscatel! Will this be stuffy and cloying? Or not? Alternatively, that is Stauning. Color: deep gold. Nostril: yeah, our beloved panettones and kougelhopfs, plus acacia honey, Sauternes and Canadian ice-wine. With water: identical, with emphasis on the panettone and kougelhopf. Contact of contemporary ginger, rye bread. Mouth: boy! Juniper and pineau des Charentes, plus clove liqueur. Very sturdy, might tear you aside in the event you’re not cautious (provided that the nostril was charmingly candy). With water: some wooden spices coming by, cinnamon, nutmeg, rye… End: reasonably lengthy. The Moscatel actually feels, whereas the aftertaste may be very spicy. Feedback: heavy, not my favorite type, as a couple of buddies very properly know, however inside this type, it is reasonably a prime gun. Extra AC/DC than Brahms in the event you ask me.
SGP:662 – 84 factors. |
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Teerenpeli 2013/2022 (59.9%, Berry Bros. & Rudd, Finland, Nordic Casks #2, oloroso hogshead, cask #13B, 217 bottles) 
I do know the whiskies are fairly younger, however did you discover the strengths? I had thought ethanol would evaporate quicker than water in northern climates… Or did they mature these in Kentucky? Or is that this one of many results of local weather change? Color: deep gold. Nostril: and voilà, truffles and butterscotch plus touches of varnish, you can’t be towards this. Easy, easy, extraordinarily nice. With water: warms your nostril, sends raisins and younger rancio to your mind. Extraordinarily comforting. Mouth (neat): butterscotch and millionaire shortbread, dipped into kirschwasser and occasional liqueur. Sounds horrible (my fault) however it’s really sensible. With water: pretty sherry cask. Walnut cake, peanut nougat, halva, satay sauce… Effectively that is virtually pornographic. End: lengthy, chocolaty. Jogs my memory of a bar that we used to have after I was a child, within the Nineteen Eighties (yeah proper), which consisted in some type of peanut brittle lined with caramel and chocolate. Forgot the identify, higher like this. Feedback: textbook sherry maturing, and requires extra Teerenpeli…
SGP:551 – 88 factors. |
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… and a few heavier Teerenpeli but…
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Teerenpeli 3 yo 2014/2017 ‘Tervaisen Savuinen Grillikastike’ (61.7%, OB, Finland, peated oloroso, 84 bottles)
No matter it says on the bottle, I agree with (too straightforward, S.) Color: amber. Nostril: some similarities and a few variations. What’s comparable is all this shortbready and butterscotchy arrival (they’re going to catch you sooner or later, S.) whereas what’s completely different is that this large quantity of natural and resinous smoke, as if somebody had burnt a bag of pine needles plus a pair of previous wellies, after which tossed a bottle of Maggi onto the fireplace. With water: superior chocolatery growth, plus certainly a superb glass of fine oloroso. Mouth (neat): extraordinarily wealthy and piney and completely big. One other Tyson of a malt, let’s not insist… With water: some sweetness popping out, like raisins macerated in fir bud liqueur after which smoked with pinewood and salted with, properly, salt. End: extraordinarily lengthy, saltier but, with the rubbery facet up and the sweetness down. Extra Maggi. Feedback: superior fighter, however fighter. One thing psychedelic too, maybe… Wait, let’s discover an acceptable file to hearken to whereas sipping this… Maybe Gong’s ‘Camembert Electrique’? Or, hey, Aphrodite’s Kid’s ‘666’? Love, love love love…
SGP:576 – 86 factors. |
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Good, earlier than this session will get too apocalyptic, let’s have a final Nordic…
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Mackmyra 2013/2022 (53.5%, Swell de Spirits, Sweden, Wonders #9, American/Virgin oak, cask #17280, 390 bottles) 
Color: deep gold. Nostril: again to civilisation, again to Chopin, Ravel and The Rolling Stones. Banana bread, contemporary praline, dried figs and pears, maple syrup, a little bit of white chocolate, vanilla pods, rum baba, nougat… It truly is a mild Mackmyra, matured in no foolish wooden (seemingly, this far). With water: roots and inexperienced bananas. That is the oak. Manioc. Mouth (neat): a tad harsher, extra on ginger and cinnamon (which I at all times discovered fairly ‘Mackmyra’), with some reasonably inexperienced tannins, white pepper, oak spices… Was is virgin US oak or virgin European oak? With water: a wee feeling of rye, ginger cookies, candied ginger… End: drier and reasonably drying. Feedback: fairly good, however in my e book, the oak actually feels right here. A bottling which may be somewhat ‘un-Swell’, if I’ll. The nostril was pretty although, and that is why we can’t go beneath…
SGP:461 – 80 factors. |
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All proper, let’s journey again to Finland after which name this a tasting session…
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Teerenpeli 8 yo (61.7%, OB for Kirsch Import, Finland, PX, cask #25112013B, 342 bottles, 2022)
Could now we have the identify of the gentleman or the girl who’s accountable with numbering-up the casks? Color: gold. Nostril: butterscotch and just a bit Williams pear. Somewhat within the type of BB&R’s Teerenpeli, so no complains right here. With water: cake and somewhat moist earth. The backyard after a bathe. Additionally some good cigarette tobacco, to illustrate Senior Service. Mouth (neat): basic nutty, coffeeish and raisiny sherry, not too cloying this time, as if this PX was really good oloroso. With water: somewhat rubber coming out, in any other case leaves, leather-based, and lees. I prefer it higher with out water, however then once more, sixty one and 7 tenths, thoughts you. End: reasonably lengthy, this time with some espresso. Feedback: completely all proper, probably the most effective you may do with PX.
SGP:461 – 85 factors. |
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