Smögen 2011 Single Cask - Edition No. 8
| Category | - |
| Distillery | Smögen |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2011 |
| Bottled Year | 2019 |
| Age | 8년 |
| Cask Type | Barrique Swedish Oak |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 63.0% |
| Volume | 500 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Sweden |
| Region | Smögen |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
맑은 황금빛이 잔 벽을 따라 기름진 결을 그리며 흘러내린다. 스웨덴 서부 해안에서 태어난 스뫼겐이 스웨디시 오크 바리크에서 팔 년을 채운 이 싱글 캐스크는 63도라는 높은 도수에 강렬한 피트를 함께 품고 있다. 마른 장작 연기와 검은 후추, 바닷가의 짠 공기가 코를 곧장 두드리며 열린다. 한 모금을 머금으면 그을린 레몬과 정향, 스웨디시 오크 특유의 알싸한 나무 향이 묵직하게 입을 채운다. 끝맛은 재와 소금기를 길게 남기며 천천히 식어 가고, 어린 스피릿의 생기가 그 뒤를 따른다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
pure, hyper sharp and slightly closed up to begin. We're in very narrow Caol Ila territory I feel. Pure seawater, pickling brine, smoked olive oil and salt-cured sardines. Impressions of wet seaweed and beach pebbles come out too. It's undeniably impeccable, but keeps its cards close to its chest. With water: a pure and pristine smokiness, one that takes in peat and wood smoke and possesses an almost crystalline, brittle quality. I also find pink sea salt, ink and a little carbolic acidity
restaurant Palate
pretty merciless upon arrival. A coiled spring of seawater, stone-honed peat smoke, mercurochrome, lemon juice, oyster water and sandalwood ashes. It's monolithic but there also many subtle suggestive things popping out like chalkiness, citrus piths, smoked olive oil; then eventually we get to thicker stuff like camphor, deeper phenolics, tar coal soap and green peppercorns in brine. There is a lot of detail and requires close attention. With water: quite immense now with water. Becomes broader, more open, the texture is fatter and thicker in every direction. A real mouth-filling carpet of smoke, tar, pebbles, salt, minerals and petrol
timer Finish
extremely long, sharply smoky, green and black olives, lightly fermentary with hay, rollmop herring, wood ashes, pickling brine and salted liquorice. The complexity just seems to gather pace and momentum over time