This rye was crafted by master distiller Henric Molin at the Spirit of Hven Distillery in Sweden. Molin uses a mash bill of 78.6% rye, 11.9% wheat, 4.8% corn, and 4.8% other grain. He then splits the fermentation time with half the batch fermenting for 96 hours and the second half for 168 hours. It is then double-distilled and aged for a minimum of 3 years in heavily-charred new American oak barrels. Each bottling is comprised of 42 casks together to get the final product. The whisky is non-chill filtered and no color or sugar is added. Available in the US as of summer 2019.
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Sweet with a little bit of perfume (think Four roses standard bottle), floral and summery feel, some bourbony notes in general. on the palate oak, and that perfume-ish note again, vanilla, very sweet and candy like taste with long lasting oaky finish.
To someone accustomed to American Rye this Swedish oddity started out as gnarly but quickly grew on me. Complex and challenging, not something I'd recommend to someone unaccustomed to high proof liquor.
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