Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Stauning "Second Opinion"
Stauning Rye Second opinion 48%
Distilled 2009/2010 Bottled 2011
Nose: A powerful sweet rye with clear, but a fresh, youthness. The rye spices reminds me of a wet resinous morning in a pine forest
Palate: Again powerful rye. Loads of butterscotch. A dry toasted woodyness and a light alcoholic burn. This is a bit of an infight of components I find good and not so good. I really like the butterscotch and the rye flavour of this whisky, but the toasted wood and the light alcoholic burn is not my favourite. I reckon some, if not many, will like the woodyness while most will also struggle with alcohol. This is just more or less archetype young whisky and anyone enjoying unaged spirits at higher ABV's will know of this.
Finish: Shortish to medium. But luckily with the rye and butterscotch dominating. As typical with very young whiskies the sensation sits at the front of your mouth.
Rating 82
The best released danish whisky I have tasted so far and this isnt really whisky as its not 3 years old. Still young and fighting, but its a clear improvement from their first release.
This is a vatting of 1 200 liter cask and 12 50l casks, all new wood. Small casks usually speeds some woodiness into a whisky
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