Mackmyra - single cask

After a very, and I do mean VERY nice dinner last night, I had the opportunity to try a bottling of Mackmyra - the swedish single malt which has caused a few raised eye-brows around the world. Ask a swede, and they will dismiss the whisky as undrinkable, but yet the whisky sells out immediately whenever it is released, and the line-up outside swedish boozer Systembolaget goes on forever on the mornings of such releases.

Travel to Scotland, and the whisky itself actually receives some very good reviews, but they can't sell a single bottle to anyone not called Svensson. Go figure.

Anyway, be that as it may, I tried a single-cask bottling of Mackmyra - bottled in november 2007, distilled april 2004. Very young then, but surprisingly vital and energetic. A bit like a teenager who is kicking and screaming all over the place, calling for attention. Without water, the punch was way too alcoholic (given it's 55% abv, that's not too surprising) for my pleasure. Add the water, and a whole world of fruity, flowery and pleasant perfumey notes appeared.
Still a vibrant, youthful malt, but with more nuance, this bodes very, very well for the future.

It's only three-year-old swedish single cask bottled single malt, but I like it.