Sweden’s Mackmyra Distillery Offers Up A Smoky Whisky With A Cherry Taste

Swedish whisky maker Mackmyra is finishing off 2020 with a release last month of a limited edition single malt whisky with the tongue-twisting name Moment Körsbärsrök, or Cherry Smoke.

This whisky was created using a combination of smoky and unsmoked new make, distilled in 2010 at Mackmyra Bruk in Valbo, Sweden, and, before blending, is aged in either ex-bourbon casks or American oak casks seasoned with German cherry wine. As with all Mackmyra releases, the whisky is aged in Bodås Mine, a former iron mine that the distillery has repurposed to store their many casks.

“In my opinion, a mature and smoky whisky such as this, with final maturing in cherry wine casks, is a real ‘end-of-the-year’ whisky,” said Mackmyra Master Blender Angela D’Orazio, in a prepared statement. “It is the perfect accompaniment to a Roquefort cheese or a soft, mature Brie at the end of a nice dinner with family and friends in the autumn darkness. It has a nicely distinct smoky character that doesn’t dominate the other finely-tuned flavours in the whisky too much.”

Moment Körsbärsrök is part of Mackmyra’s ongoing Moments Series of limited whiskeys that has included their Moment Fjällmark and Moment Efva releases. If you’d like to nab some Moment Körsbärsrök, act quickly as there are only 1,500 bottles available of the whisky worldwide. Official tasting notes are below and it has an ABV of 43%.

Nose: Fruity with notes of peat, tar and spicy juniper-smoke. Round notes of toasted oak, vanilla, anise, and fruity cherry followed by citrus and pear fudge.

Taste: Fruity and smoky with a well-balanced spiciness. Fine smoky notes with peat, oil
and juniper. Fruity cherries and round notes of oak and vanilla.

Aftertaste: Fruity, smoky and spicy with pleasant notes of tar, peat, juniper, vanilla and fruity cherries.