Nose
Directly the honeyed sweetness mixed with rich vanilla and raisins hit my nose. After that comes some lemon sweets combined with orange and grapefruits. It is fresh, sweet and fruity.
Fresh plums sweetness it reminds me of a bit. Mixed with elderflower blossom and gooseberries. There is also some earthiness to it, and some mixed oriental spices maybe...
Hard to get to the bottom of this nose it is throwing me from one side to the other. Like the nose, but needs some water I think. It is bottled at 49,8% and is holding it self a bit "closed". With a couple of drops of water it reveals some more fruit and berry notes, combined with a very light smoke and sweet wood note on it.
Palate
Pepper, spice, honey, leather, tobacco, red apple, red berry, dark berry, gooseberry, blackcurrent, pear, banana, vanilla, chocolate, raisin, orange, lemon, grapefruit, turkish delight, mango, and some eucalyptus... It is a sweet fruity dram for sure!
With some water added to this dram it gives me also some cinnamon and gingery notes, combined with the pepper, dark chocolate and vanilla. It reveals it self a bit more with some water, and warming up the glass more and more, develops the sweet notes also. Always keep amazing me more and more the difference a bit of water or warmth can do to a whisky.
Finish
It has a sweet, bit dry smoke medium length finish
Score
This one scores a 7,5 out of 10 for me. It needed some time, but it reveals it self in the end. This
Moment Bärnsten bottling shared to us by Angela, translated to Amber, is a limited edition of 1500 bottles made with ex-cloudberry wine casks and smoke tail whisky on swedish oak and ex-bordeaux wine casks, and released in December 2013.
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