Mackmyra reviews

Little Brown Dog? This is no reference to the color of this Swedish malt, but to the Swedish bottler that took on that funny name. Don’t ask me why. In December 2020 they bottled this 12 years old Mac…

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…

It’s brand new, this Mackmyra Vintersol. It means Winter Sun which explains why it will only be available in Sweden – via Systembolaget – as of the 4th of October. When exactly we will have it in our…

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 …

Gruvguld is Swedish for ‘gold from the mine’, which is of course a reference to the Bodas mine in which Mackmyra matures here whisky – at a depth of 50 meters, by the way. It is a marriage of 3 types of…

Cloudberries are Sweden’s most sought after berries to make wine. This Moment release from Mackmyra – that was named Fjällmark – matured on those casks and then got a finish on sherry casks, both oloroso…

The Master Blender of Mackmyra, Angela D’Orazio, regularly discovers single casks in her Bodas Mine (where they matured in a constant temperature) that jump out to her. Being so exceptional, she does not…

I tried the Mackmyra Svensk Rök some two years ago. It simply means Swedish Smoke. Now the Swedish distiller offers a variant on this malt: Amerikansk Ek, meaning American Oak. The difference is thus the…

My buddy Marcel from Holland sent me a box with some new make samples. One of those was the commercially available Vit Hun – meaning white dog – of the Swedish Mackmyra. Perhaps they took their inspir…

I mentioned Mackmyra's Säsongswhisky (seasonal whisky) range before and tasted the most recent one - Skördetid - just the other day. But as luck would have it, a sample of an older bottling arrived in…