Origin: Denmark
Type: Single Malt Danish Whisky
Strength: 56.3%ABV
Ageing cask: Ex-Sherry
Chillfiltered: No
Added coloring: No
Owner: Rauff & Fagerberg
Average price: € 105.00
Official website: rfwhisky.dk
Vote: 81/100
A few years later their last entry, the Danish bottler Rauff & Fagerberg returns to the blog, kindly sending me a taste of their latest bottling, this time from a local distillery.
Sall Whisky was established in 2019 in the small village of the same name in Denmark, producing (of course) gin and whisky from organic barley grown in their own fields.
Minimal production split between peated and unpeated whisky, they stocked just ten casks on their debut, and released in 2022 their first bottling from the stated age of three years at cask strength in 1,295 bottles.
Barley harvested in 2020, malted with peat from the Jutland peninsula, aged for three years in a former oloroso sherry cask (No. 57) of which the bottler was allocated 37 cask strength bottles.
Tasting Notes
On the nose, the peat is declined to vegetal, with burnt shrubs and grass and roasted juniper intruding tones of malt, crème brûlée, spices (lots of nutmeg, cloves, coriander), ginger biscuits, pecans, leather. Few nuances because of the youth, but all in all pleasant.
In the mouth, the sherry leaves its mark, a charge of pepper, ginger and nutmeg propels red fruits (blackberries, currants, sour cherries), sultanas and toasted nuts (walnuts, almonds), with the vegetal peated side (burnt bark and grass) evident especially at first sip, then moving to the rear. A balsamic part emerges, suspended between herbal bitterness and fernet, rather curious and persistent in length.
Quite short finish of herbs, nuts, spices, malt, burnt wood.
The Danish peat has a large influence, making it lose its whisky identity a little and taking it down other paths. It certainly doesn’t lack personality, but perhaps needs more time to balance the impact of the raw material.