Single Malt
1 Jan 2018
1 Jan 2023
741
Sherry
Swedish single malt whisky here from the Agitator Distillery, an energy-efficient producer that uses innovative techniques to reduce power consumption and waste. The brand practices vacuum distillation and wet milling, and utilises a high-gravity wash. It's this kind of approach that brought it to the attention of Berry Bros. & Rudd, who bottled spirit from forward-thinking brands for its range Collective #1: The Pioneers. The vintage 2018 whisky selected was produced with 40ppm barley and fermented with a Saison yeast before it was aged in a single first-fill sherry hogshead cask and then bottled at 57.7% ABV, without chill-filtration or colouring.
The nose is near overwhelmingly complex, dried mushrooms, forest floor, peat smoke, wonderfully umami.
The palate is pleasantly dirty, bringing notes of new leather, pink wafer biscuits, garden bonfire with a pleasing coastal backbone.
Smoke and dried fruit linger on a stunned palate.
Idiosyncratic brilliance, distilled by either a madman or a genius.
