Stauning Smoke is the essence of the distillery’s innovative New Nordic whiskey philosophy: A mildly smoky single malt whiskey brewed on pure West Jutland barley, which is malted on an open floor. Smoked over locally harvested peat and heather from the countryside around Stauning. Double-distilled in small pot stills over an open fire. Aged in 1st Fill wine and spirit casks.
The result is an elegant and refined whisky, which with its gentle smoky taste and complex character exudes the dunes, the heath and the wind by the North Sea. A full-blooded terroir whisky.
Peat is thousands of years old vegetation that is pressed together in dense layers and used as fuel.
This fuel is not used for heat, but to make tasty smoke for the whisky. The peat gets its character from the landscape it is created from. That is why Stauning only uses fuel from local peat bogs.
We mix the peat with dried heather plants that have been harvested on the heathland around Ringkøbing Fjord. Heather gives the whiskey a mild and aromatic smoky taste.
The best local ingredients and most traditional production methods:
Signature whiskey
Our terroir-smoked signature single malt whisky
Local
The distillery uses barley from the fields around Stauning
Smoked with both local peat & heather
Authentic
Malted on the floor of the distillery
Complexity
Aged for 5-6 years in a mixture of 1st Fill bourbon casks, 1st Fill Madeira casks, 1st Fill Jamaica rum casks and new American oak casks
Grade
Double distilled in small copper stills over an open fire
Unfiltered – precipitation may occur
Handmade
100% handmade in the distillery – exclusively using local ingredients
TASTING NOTES
The taste of buzzing bees and heather in a bottle. A mild smoke from an open fire mingles with elegant notes of citrus and honey. In the mouth, a rich taste of tobacco, nuts, vanilla and fresh herbs emerges.
AGE & FADE
Aged for 5-6 years in a mixture of 1st Fill bourbon casks, 1st Fill Madeira casks, 1st Fill Jamaica rum casks and new American oak casks
BEVERAGE TESTING INSTITUTE – GOLD MEDAL
Gold colour. Grainy aromas and flavors of whole grain bread dough, roasted sesame, cedar, arugula, incense, and wet barrel with a round, crisp, medium body and a tingling, medium-length finish displaying accents of green peppercorns. A young, zesty Whiskey with a flashy, oaky style.
SAN FRANCISCO WORLD SPIRITS COMPETITION – SILVER MEDAL
Outstanding spirits that show refinement, finesse, and complexity; these winners are among the best examples of their categories.
