Mackmyra Month – take a Moment

MOMENT – THE FINEST CASKS

A WORD FROM THE MASTER BLENDER

During her regular tastings in the Bodås mine and on the island Fjäderholmarna, our Master Blender Angela D’Orazio, sometimes come across casks that distinguish themselves from the rest. For a long time, Angela have dreamt of making something really special with these casks. That’s why we created the Mackmyra Moment series: our most unique casks in very limited editions.

– We have a number of casks in Bodås and at Fjäderholmarna that are so exquisite that it would be a shame to use them in our large bottlings, where their unique character will blend into the masses. That’s why we, for some time now, have talked about finding some other way to release this exclusive whisky to the public, Angela says.

EXCLUSIVE WHISKY IN EXCLUSIVE CLOTHES

Mackmyra Moment is a series of whiskies from our most exclusive casks, handpicked by Master Blender Angela D’Orazio. Each edition comes in a distinguished black carton with a specific colour scheme and a modern bottle design with an engraved metal plaque.

Since the number of casks per bottling are so few, the editions in the Moment series are very limited. The first editions to be released were Moment Medvind and Moment Urberg who where launched on 15 December 2010 in the exclusive range at the Swedish monopoly store Systembolaget.

Since then, several unique Moment editions have been released. Read more about them in the menu to your left.

MOMENT PRESTIGE

Volume: 70 cl / Alc: 46,1 % vol.

Moment Prestige is an eleven year old whisky aged on casks of French oak that previously held wine from the artisinal Champagne producer Philipponnat.

When making Champagne, Philipponnat only uses the finest grapes, mainly from Premier and Grand cru vineyards, and then let parts of the wine age on oak casks. To the whisky, these casks bring crisp notes of white wine, grapefruit, bread and toasted oak.

The youngest part of the whisky has been aged between the years 2006 – 2017, and the oldest part, which makes up 40% of the total volume, was aged between the years 2004 – 2017.

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Winter is Coming … and Mackmyra

Well, let’s see who is an open minded whisky enthousiast and who is not.

A lot of people swear by Scotch and I have to say they do make some really good stuff, but it’s quiet similar to the beer industry. Big companies sometimes stick to what they know, what sells good and so on.

Mackmyra is a fairly young distillery, but they managed to create great quality, Single Malt and did this in a unique way. A Swedish way!

They blend small casks, under 200L, with larger cask which gives intense aroma’s for fairly young whisky. Often they season there own casks with typical Swedish products and creating in this way a flavor palette that’s rather different from other whiskies you will have tried before.

In my humble opinion this is a great, modern, durable distillery, with a nice story behind it, but with a great, unique approach on how to produce whisky that distiguishes itself from other brands.

With winter coming, I thought it was time to put this distillery in the spotlight with their heartwarming drams.

Prepare for 4 weeks of Swedish specials.

Week 1: MACKMYRA GRUVGULD (gold from the mine) Check out and order here

September – Springbank Distillery Month – Week 2

With a day delay, here we are with a special limited edition of Springbank Disitillery.

The Springbank distillery in Campbeltown has released Local Barley expressions before, but this one has been the first after a long time, being bottled in 2016.

This 16 Year Old Local Barley is the first in a series of five expressions to be released over five years. They have used barley grown at Low Machrimore Farm in Southend, which is just a few miles outside of Campbeltown. 9,000 bottles were produced.

As the real whisky enthousiasts will confim it is sold out way to quickly and a lot of the time by collectors. And I most say it is a shame that this whisky doesn’t get drunk enough.

So a great price, for a great whisky.

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