Mackmyra Preludium 05

Mackmyra Special 01 Eminent Sherry

This Mackmyra ‘Special 01’ was named Eminent Sherry, so it’s no surprise that it was matured on Spanish ex-sherry casks, deep in the Bodas mine. The nose gives me raisins, figs and vanilla. It also offers some coconut, apples and a tad of celery salt. Adding some water makes is quite creamy. The raisins return on the palate, but also a lot of oak...

Score 82/100

Mackmyra Äppelblom

Appelblom is Swedish for apple blossom, in the case of this new release from Mackmyra it refers to the fact that the whisky was finished in casks that previously held calvados from Christian Drouin (after an initial maturation on ex bourbon barrels and virgin American oak). The house Drouin in considered one of the best calavdos producers in the...

Score 85/100

Mackmyra Svensk Ek

Mackmyra has two working distilleries, the second being a hyper modern ‘gravity distillery’, where everything works top-down and so gravity plays an important role. In the so-called Mackmyra Village one can go shopping and have lunch. A distillery visit obviously can be arranged. This Svensk Ek – which simply means Swedish oak – matured for 90% on...

Score 83/100

Mackmyra Intelligens AI:01

Mackmyra used a computerprogram developed by the Finse technology giant Fourkind and fed it with 75 different whisky recipes as well as awards, reviews from consumers, ratings, feedback from ambassadors and so forth and so on. With that raw data Fourkind created a unique recipe that would lead to this malt. The label proudly mentions ‘Artificial...

Score 82/100