European whiskies are emerging as the next wave… Bringing old world context, pride in local resources, new techniques and experiments. Many of these distilleries are producing distinctly different whiskies gaining increasing appreciation and attention.

While impossible to buy in India, over the years through creative international purchases and kind samples, our tasting adventures have expanded to explore European whiskies…

And then I moved to Europe, and our explorations exploded! Here is a list of some European whiskies we’ve experienced so far…

Europe  / Other

• Austria
  • Waldviertler J.H. 5 year Single Malt 41%
  • Waldviertler J.H. 6 year Rye Malt 41%
  • Wieser Uuahouua Pinot Noir 7 years Single Malt 40%
• Belgium
  • Gouden Carolus 3 years 46%
  • The Belgian Owl
    • Origine Pot Still unaged spirit 46%
    • Identité 36 months, first fill bourbon 46%
    • Passion 36 months, first fill bourbon, single cask 1538337 46%
    • Intense 40 months, first fill bourbon, single cask 1538452 72.7%
    • Evolution 48 months, first fill bourbon 46%
• Czech –Hammer Head 23 year 40.7%
• Denmark
  • Danica NAS 42% (unpeated) WL
  • Fary Lochan 5 year (2012/2017) Rum No. 1, 64.7%
  • Fary Lochan 6 Years (2022) Batch 1, 60.7% (TBWC)
  • Fary Lochan 6 year (2016/2022) Moscatel Finish, Batch 5, 62.1%
  • Fary Lochan 7 year (2014/2021) Olorosso 60.3% (Single Cask by Liquid Madness)
  • Fary Lochan 7 year (2015/2023) Peat & Port No. 1, 60.9% 
  • Stauning Young Rye (2010/2011) 49.3%
  • Stauning Peated 2nd Edition 55%
  • Stauning Rye (2021) Mezcal Finish 46.3%
  • Stauning Rye (2022) 48%
  • Stauning El Clásico (2022) Vermouth Finish 45.7%
• Finland
  • Helsinki 6 year Rye (2022) Batch 2 58.9% (TBWC)
  • Helsinki Rye Release #14 (2023) American Virgin Oak + Rum Cask Finish 47.5%
  • Kyrö 4 year Rye (2022) Batch 1 53.1% (TBWC)
  • Kyrö Malt Rye (2022) 47.2%
  • Kyrö Wood Smoke Rye (2022) 47.2%
  • Kyrö Rye Whisky + Monbazillac Cask (2022) 53%
  • Teerenpeli 10 year 43% WL
  • Teerenpeli Kaski 43% + 2020 Revisit

• France
  • Armorik
    • Breizh 42%
    • Classic 46% + Nov’17
    • Double Matured 46% + 2020 Revisit
    • 8 year (2022) Batch 3, 59.5% (TBWC)
  • AWA Pinot Noire 42% WL
  • Bellevoye
    • Blue (French Oak) 40% WLE
    • White (Sauternes) 40% WLE
    • Red (Grand Cru) 43% WLE
    • Black – Bellevoye Tourbee Triple Malt Whiskey 43%
  • Brenne
    • Brenne Cuvée Spéciale French Single Malt Whisky 40%
    • Brenne Estate Cask 40% WL
  • Domaine Des Hautes Glace Organic – Les Moissons Single Malt 42%
  • Eddu Silver Buckwheat Whisky 40%
  • Guillon Banyuls 43%
  • Glann ar Mor
    • Glann Ar Mor 46%
    • Kornog Taourac’h Trived 10 BC  (2010) 46%
    • Kornog Taouarc’h Pempved 14 BC (2014) 46%
    • Kornog (2013) 58.7% (Auld Alliance)

• • Maison Benjamin Kuentz WLE
    • Aux Particules Vines (1st Edition) 46% WLE
    • Aux Particules Vines (4th Edition) 46% WLE
    • Aux Particules Vines (5th Edition) 46% WLE
    • (D’un) Verre printanier (2020) 46% WLE
    • Aveux Gourmands (2020) 1st Edition 46% WLE
    • Fin de partie (2020) 46% WLE
    • Inouïe Mélodie WLE
    • Le Guip 55% WLE
  • Michel Courveur
    • “Candid” L 2019018 49% WL
    • Special Vatting Malt Whisky 45% WL
  • Osokye French Single Malt Series No. 4, PX Finish 40.8% WL
  • Rozelieures
    • Rozelieures Subtil 40% WLE
    • Rozelieures Tourbe 46% WLE

• Germany
  • Ayer’s
    • Alligator 57.7%
    • Organic Single Malt PX Sherry Cask 56.2% (DE mini)
  • Birkenhof
    • Fading Hill Rye 45%
    • Fading Hill Peat 46%
  • Black Forest Wild Whisky Peated 42%
  • DeCavo NAS Batch 10, Cask 92 46%
  • Elch
    • Elch Torf vom Dorf (2022) 50.2% (DE)
    • Elch Torfduett (2023) 50.6%
  • Elsburn 7 year (2022) Batch 3, 48.7% (TBWC)
  • Finch
    • Finch 5-year Single Malt Sherry 42% (DE)
    • Finch “Barrel Proof” 8-year ex-Red wine, Bourbon and Port Cask 54% (DE)
    • Finch Special Grain 6 year Rye Edition 46%
    • Finch Fine Selection 6 year Single Malt 42%
    • Finch Cask Strength 8 year Emmer Edition 3, 54.6%
    • Finch Distillers Choice 8 year Barrique Cask 42%
    • Finch Distillers Choice 8 year Single Malt Sherry Cask 46%
    • Finch Special Grain 8 year Dinkel Port 42%
    • Finch Special Edition 8 year WOA Bullhead Single Malt 46%
    • Finch Distillers Choice 10 year Single Malt Smoky 46%
  • J. B.G. Münsterländer Single Grain Whisky 6 year (Mar 2017/Nov 2020) Cask 26, 27, 28, 42%
  • Slyrs
    • Sild “Crannog” 3 year Single Malt 48% WL
    • Slyrs Marsala Finish L1140 46% 375ml (IN)
    • Slyrs New American Oak 43% (IN mini)
    • Slyrs Worldwide Spirits Limited Edition Vintage 2012-2106 Oloroso Cask 55.9%
    • Slyrs 51 51% WL
  • Spreewood Distillers (Stork)
    • Stork Single Malt 43%
    • Stork Straight Rye 45%
    • Stork Club Full Proof Rye 55%
  • St Kilian
    • Signature Edition ‘One’ (2016/2019) 45%
    • Signature Edition ‘Four’ Peated (2016/2020) 48%
    • Signature Edition ‘Six’ (2016/2020) 47.5%
    • Signature Edition ‘Seven’ (2017/2021) 51.75%
    • Signature Edition ‘Nine’ (2016/17/18 – 2020/21) 55.3%
    • Signature Edition ‘Twelve’ (2017/18) 50.8%
    • Signature Edition ‘Thirteen’ (2016/18/19 – 2022) 53.9% + Deconstructed
    • Classic – Mild & Fruity 46% + revisit
    • Grave Digger – Fields of Blood 47%
    • Grave Digger – Berry Metal 40% (Liqueur)
    • Peated – Rich & Smoky 46%
    • Hand-filled Paelzer Eich ex Moscatel (2017) 60.2%
    • Mystery malts – from promising to perplexing
  • Thousand Mountains McRaven Single Malt Whisky 46.2%
  • Ziegler Distillery
    • Aureum Classic 8 year Single Malt 43% (DE)
    • Aureum Chestnut Cask 5 year Single Malt 43% (DE)
    • Aureum Cask Strength 8 year 53.2%
    • Aureum Grave Digger “The Bruce” Peat 8 year 43%
    • Aureum The First 2010 Cask Strength 10 year 55.5% (DE)
    • Aureum Port 8 year 68.5%
    • Aureum PX 8 year 67.5%
    • Ziegler 7 year Single Malt 40%

• Iceland
  • Flóki Young Malt 47% + Revisit WL
• Israel – Milk & Honey Classic Single Malt 46%
• Italy
  • Puni Nova, Alba and Alba Marsala Islay 43%
  • Puni Alba Marsala + Islay casks, Batch #2 (2015) 43%
  • Puni Nova Bourbon Cask, Batch #2 (2015) 43%
  • Puni 4 year old (2023) Batch 2 46.1% (TBWC Cinema)
• The Netherlands
  • Millstone 100 Rye Whisky 50%* (IN)
  • Millstone 18 year (1998/2016) Sherry 55.5%
  • Millstone 25 year (2022) Batch 5, 46.5% (TBWC)
• Norway – Audny 4 year, Series 3 46%

• Sweden
  • Agitator
    • Agitator Spirits
    • Agitator Single Malt 43%
    • Agitator Single Malt Rök 43%
    • Agitator Argument: Småfat 46%
  • High Coast (formerly Box Whisky) 
    • Box Whisky Dálvve 46%
    • Box Whisky The Festival 2015 54.5%
    • Box Whisky Shareholders 2016 3 year 52%
    • High Coast Hav “Spiced Oak” 48% WL
    • High Coast Älv “Delicate Vanilla” 46% WL
    • High Coast Berg PX 50% WL
  • Isle of Lime “Sangelstain” 46.3% WL

• • Mackmyra
    • Mackmyra 3 Year Bachair Private Cask
    • Mackmyra 3 Year Preludium 01 De Första Dropparna 55.6%
    • Mackmyra 3 year, Batch 1, 47.2% (TBWC)
    • Mackmyra 5 year Rök Oloroso Cask Finish 46.3% (Vita Dulcis)
    • Mackmyra 8 Year Dram Good Whisky
    • Mackmyra 9 year old (2023) Batch 3 46.8% (TBWC Cinema)
    • Mackmyra 12 Year (Bourbon barrel) 50.2% (Chorlton) WLE
    • Mackmyra Äppelblom 46.1%
    • Mackmyra Björksav 46.1%
    • Mackmyra “Kungstorv” Peated 47% (vomFASS)
    • Mackmyra Mack 40% WL
    • Mackmyra Moments – Brukswhisky DLX Nr 659/1999 46.6%
    • Macmyra Reserve
      • Bourbon Förlagrad Fatnr 41155 (2018-10-29 to 2019-05-14) 55%
      • Elegant Oloroso Fatnr 39502 (2016-11-22/ 2020-09-21) 49.6%
      • Bourbon Rök 3.5 year Fatnr 7765 (2018-11-13) 50.3%
      • New Oloroso Rök Fatrn 38740 (2014-1010/2018-10-10) 57.3%
    • Mackmyra Svensk Rök 46.1% WL
    • Mackmyra Svensk Rök 46.1% WL (2021 distillery visit)
    • Mackmyra “Valbo” 42.5% (vomFASS)
    • Mackmyra Vinterdröm 46.1% WL
    • Mackmyra Vinterglöd 46.1%
  • Smögen
    • Smögen Single Cask 7/2011 4 year old 57.3%
    • Smögen Sherry Project 1:4 57.2%
  • Spirit of Hven Distillery visit
    • Spirit of Hven “The Nose” 44.9% WL
    • Spirit of Hven Tycho’s Star 41.8% WL
    • MerCurious Corn Whisky 45.6%
    • Seven Stars 6.2 Alcor 45%
    • Seven Angels – St Raphael (2021) 40.9%
• Switzerland
  • Forty-Three Swiss Highland Single Malt Whisky 43%
  • Langatun Old Bear Cask Proof (2010/2016) 62.8% WL
  • Santis Malt Himmelberg Edition 43%
  • Santis 6 year Snow White No 8 Pineau 48%

Since moving to Europe, I’ve had a chance to go where the magic happens – either where malts are crafted or distilled! Most notably in:

• France: Maison Benjamin Kuentz – Aux Particules Vines Edition 1, 4 and 5
• Germany: Ziegler Distillery Part 1: & Part 2
• Sweden: Mackmyra & Spirit of Hven

We’ve even had a few European-focused evenings:

• Parisian Aperertif – Michel Courveur “Candid” and Osokye (WL Dec 2021)
• Whisky Ladies St Kilian Signature Edition Part 2 – ‘One’, ‘Four’, ‘Six’ + St Kilian Signature Edition 9 (2016/17/18 – 2020/21) 55.3%
• St Kilian Signature Edition Part 1: ‘One’ (2016/2019) 45%, ‘Four’ (2016/2020) 48%, ‘Six’ (2016/2020) 47.5%,  ‘Seven’ (2017/2021) 51.7%
• Scandi Trio – Isle of Lime Sangelstain 46.3%, High Coast Älv 46% + Berg 50%
• Bellevoye Trio – Blue (French Oak) 40%, White (Sauternes) 40%, Red (Grand Cru) 43%
• The Belgian Owl – Origine Pot Still unaged spirit 46%, Identité 36 months 46%, Passion 36 months, single cask 1538337 46%, Evolution 48 months 46%, Intense 40 months, single cask 1538452 72.7%
• French Fancies – Le Pertuis 42.6%, Glann Ar Mor 46%, Rozelieures Subtil 40%, Rozelieures Tourbe 46%
• French connect introducing Maison Benjamin Kuentz – (D’un) Verre printanier 46%, Fin de partie 46%, Aveux Gourmands 46%
• Bombay Malt & Cigar Gents European Explorations
• Whisky Ladies Northern Lights
• Whisky Ladies Après-ski
• Whisky Ladies European Tour
• Nordic Explorer’s Edition
• Celebrating 30+ European whiskies!

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