This one is from Series 2, and i don't know what series means in this context, perhaps its a batch reference. I believe this one is 3yo, and it came out a year or two back. Yet its still available where I live. That's pretty unusual, it being the first ever Norwegian Single Malt, from a single cask, and limited to 1750 bottles only. Lets see. The color is pale golden. It smells butterscotch, caramel, furniture polish, tonic water, sweet and strange. Remember, it's matured in a big old sherry cask for not many years. The taste is again a bit strange, a lot of furniture polish, paint remover, rubber, burnt plastic, really hard to pin down. Let's add a couple drops of water. Now it turns sweeter, corn syrup, aniseed, perfumy, another side that I find quite hard to enjoy. The finish is on carrot mash and sour wine.
Now, all that being said, I have been in contact with one person that, when he visited Agder Brenneri, got to try a cask sample of this, and in his opinion, it was a much better spirit than what is put out. Perhaps Ole Puntervold lost faith in his spirit, or he was afraid to walk off the straight and narrow at first bottling. Anyhow, I believe this cask could have done wonders given 10 or so more years, and young spirits should usually be bottled CS and from smaller casks. I hope this is not the last we will see of spirit from Norway. From what I've heard, Sweden and Finland, amongst many others, are producing excellent whisky these days.
More of a novelty than a serious attempt to make a lasting impression: 2.5
Next tasting: Benrinnes Distillery
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