SVENSK EK – 95/100 POINTS

Nose 24/25p: “Now there’s a novel nose: something here I have never nosed before…think I need to look at that label… Right, well the oak offers sappy sugars and nipping spice is uniquely equal measure: perfect balance right on the nose.”

Taste 23.5/25p: “Wow…!! Those sugars apparent on the nose need no second invitation. They gush forth like waters from a spring on delivery, a unique blend of ulmo honey, marzipan, grist and muscovado sugars, sweetening and soothing the palate before giving way to a playful spice and the darkest of liquorice.”

Finish 23.5/25: “Long and increasingly toasty with the sugars now more of a molasses bent; the spices are increasingly more peppery and belligerent, but never is the balance lost even when the drier vanillas arrive;

Balance 24/25p: Mackmyra has branched out into whisky matured from oak grown in the south of Sweden. Before I tasted this I was rooting for them. Soon I twigged that this is an avenue they must continue along. Brilliant!”