Stauning Danish Smoke Single Malt Whisky

Stauning Whisky is the result of what can happen when a group of friends with different backgrounds combine their passion and effort in an experiment to push the boundaries of whisky making. Reviving traditional methods lost to industrialization, Stauning whiskies are all made from local grain that is floormalted in-house. Distillation takes place in 24 small copper pot stills, under each of them scorching fire burns. These stills produce whiskies whose deep flavours reflect the surrounding landscape of the Danish West Coast. In 2018 Stauning Whisky moved into its new distillery. A structure with a dramatic silhouette and innovative engineering, that draws upon decades of classic Danish design and architecture. Its sharp angles crafted from burnt timber, mirror the old fishermen's huts it shares the coast with.

Stauning Whisky uses only local barley and rye all of which is floor-malted in-house using methods that draws upon centuries of whisky-making knowhow and tradition, but with a twist of Stauning ingenuity and innovation. Direct-firing the distillery's 24 copper pot stills helps to create complex and deep flavours and adds weight and character to Stauning's whiskies. It's difficult and expensive, but it's totally worth it. The nine friends all come from very different backgrounds: a doctor, a teacher, a butcher, a chef, a pilot and four engineers. The three SKUS include Kaos, Rye and Peat.

Stauning Smoke is the quintessence of the distillery's innovative New Nordic-whisky philosophy: A mildly smoked single malt whisky made from pure local ingredients, malted on open floors, smoked over locally harvested peat and heather found in the landscape surrounding Stauning, double-distilled in small flame-heated pot stills and finally aged on 1st Fill wine and spirits casks.

The result is an elegant and refined whisky with a gentle smoky taste and a complex character that oozes of the dunes, the heath and the wind by the North Sea. A thoroughbred terroir whisky that gently will blow you away.

Tasting Notes

Nose: Smoky heather florals, with lemon blossom, apple skin and touches of cocoa here and there.

Palate: A buttery mouthfeel leads into cantaloupe sweetness, with milk chocolate shrouded by notes of floral smoke.

Finish: Cut grass sweetness and singed hay linger.