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Swedish Mackmyra McMare A few things you need to know

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Swedish Mackmyra McMare A few things you need to know

1. The northernmost winery in the world, established in 1999 AD

Swedish Mackmyra McMare A few things you need to know

2. The winery uses Swedish water, Swedish barley, Swedish oak, Swedish peat, Swedish yeast, all self-sufficient, self-produced and self-sold.

Swedish Mackmyra McMare A few things you need to know

Oak barrels

3. The barrel aged oak barrels are all handmade by the distillery with a special specification of 30 liters/barrel, which should be the current record holder for the smallest barrel of whisky distilleries in the world.

Why make a wooden barrel with a capacity of 30 liters?

It is said that when the factory was first built, due to the small scale and limited output of similar farm-type wineries, only about 30 liters of raw wine could be obtained after each distillation, so wooden barrels with distillation capacity were specially made for aging. (At present, 30-liter barrels are still manufactured and used, but the number is very small) The wine cellars are mostly caves dug during World War II, coupled with the high latitude and cool climate, the aging is slow, so small barrels are used to accelerate the maturation.

There is a wide variety of product lines, but most of them are produced in small batches

Barrels containing barrel products, of course, barrels of barrel products will not be made of local Swedish oak or endorse the brand [specific people and things]; Normal products should only have blue and red labels.

Swedish Mackmyra McMare A few things you need to know

Distillery distillation method:

The distillery completed a 7-story vertical distillery in 2011; The concept is taken from the old-fashioned beer brewing process.

The design is more similar to a Coffey still

[It's just that the kofi style uses mash and up-extraction, and Mark Myrry is transporting the raw material to the top and then descending layer by layer].

Swedish Mackmyra McMare A few things you need to know

4. The chief winemaker is a woman

Swedish Mackmyra McMare A few things you need to know

5. A love story about why eight distillery owners founded the distillery and the group marriage and angry management You can write a novel and serialize it at the beginning.

Swedish Mackmyra McMare A few things you need to know

6. It was only on sale in 2007 AD, and the brand is very popular in Sweden, so it is not easy to buy abroad.

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