\nBox (High Coast) Early Days: 8.53 \u00b1 0.24 on 3 reviews ($$$$)
\nBox (High Coast) PX – Pedro Xim\u00e9nez Finish: 8.86 \u00b1 0.17 on 8 reviews ($$$$$)
\nBox (High Coast) Quercus I Robur: 8.28 \u00b1 0.41 on 3 reviews ($$$$)
\nBox (High Coast) The 2nd Step Collection 02: 8.85 \u00b1 0.13 on 8 reviews ($$$$$)
\nBox (High Coast) The Festival 2014: 8.93 \u00b1 0.12 on 3 reviews ($$$$$)
\nMackmyra Svensk Ek: 8.36 \u00b1 0.22 on 4 reviews ($$$$)
\nMackmyra Svensk R\u00f6k: 8.63 \u00b1 0.21 on 5 reviews ($$$$)<\/strong>
\nMackmyra Ten Years 10yo: 8.70 \u00b1 0.11 on 5 reviews ($$$$$)
\nMackmyra The First Edition (Den F\u00f6rsta Utg\u00e5van): 8.66 \u00b1 0.33 on 17 reviews ($$$)
\nMackmyra The Swedish Whisky (Brukswhisky): 8.42 \u00b1 0.55 on 11 reviews ($$)
\nSmogen Prim\u00f6r: 8.48 \u00b1 0.25 on 4 reviews ($$$$$)
\nSmogen Single Cask (all editions): 8.88 \u00b1 0.14 on 5 reviews ($$$$$)
\nSpirit of Hven Tycho\u2019s Star: 8.71 \u00b1 0.27 on 6 reviews ($$$$)<\/p>\n
Let’s see what I find in the glass:<\/p>\n
Nose<\/strong>: Faint peat, coming across as light smoke and dry ash. Light apple juice. Caramel. Light berries. A relatively faint juniper note, but much less than Mackmyra First Edition<\/a> honestly. An unusual organic off-note – reminds me of mimeograph fluid (for those of you of a certain age). A bit of glue, but not offensive. All in all, an interesting start. Also reminds me a bit of Box Dalvve<\/a>, for both the youth and light smoke.<\/p>\n Palate<\/strong>: Not as sweet as expected, but definite caramel and some vanilla. Much dryer than earlier Mackmyras (or Box Dalvve for that matter). No real fruits coming through, beyond standard apple\/pear. Cigar ash. A bit of dry book-binding glue. White pepper. Bitterness after swallow, unfortunately, which detracts for me personally. A bit too simple in the mouth, honestly.<\/p>\n Finish<\/strong>: Medium. Apple juice with a squeeze of lemon. Caramel lingers, but so does the bitterness. Somewhat astringent on way out. The woodiness comes through here, but I wouldn’t necessarily ascribe it to juniper per se.<\/p>\n Among reviewers, Jim Murray was the most positive, with an above-average score. Serge of Whisky Fun<\/a>, Thomas of Whisky Saga<\/a> and Jonny of Whisky Advocate<\/a> all give it an average score (but favourable reviews). I’m the lowest of the group on this one. An interesting experiment perhaps, but I find the smokey whiskies coming out of Box (High Coast) more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" R\u00f6k means smoke in Swedish, and this Svensk R\u00f6k edition (“Swedish Smoke”) is the first smokey single malt whisky released by Mackmyra, first launched in 2013. The traditional Swedish way of smoking food is over burning juniper, so they added juniper wood while kilning the barley for this edition. As is typical for Mackmyra, they have used a range of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[136,18,80,17,61],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whiskies","tag-mackmyra","tag-nas","tag-peated","tag-single-malt","tag-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/whiskyanalysis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Macmyra.Svensk.Rok_.jpg\")
I’ve generally been a fan of most Swedish whiskies I’ve tried, including Mackmyra. But this one strikes me as a little lacking. Specifically, it seems too young, and not as interesting as similar lightly-peated youthful whiskies (i.e. I find even the entry-level Box Dalvve<\/a> is better).<\/p>\n