Smögen 2011 SMWS 145.1 A sweet kiss from a smoking mermaid
| Category | - |
| Distillery | Smögen |
| Bottler | The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) |
| Bottling Series | A sweet kiss from a smoking mermaid |
| Vintage | 2011 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 8년 |
| Cask Type | 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel |
| Cask Number | 145.1 |
| Bottles Released | 240 |
| ABV | 62.7% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Sweden |
| Region | Smögen |
Flavor Profile
Tasting 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
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