Spirit Of Hven Summer Spirit Organic 750ml

This Organic Summer Spirit is the essence of summer in a bottle. This unique vintage Spirit is meant to be an annual recurrent product. The very unique recipe with Bitter Orange, Rhubarb, Elderflower and Apples together with locally harvested botanicals, distilled in the small signature copper pot stills of Hven that creates sweetness that balances the recipe perfectly with the slow oak maturation in American oak. The scent brings us right out on the summer meadows, with the flowers, the grass, the strawberries and the wonderful smorgasbord we await so dearly. Producer On the island of Hven located in the strait of Öresund between Denmark and Sweden lies Spirit of Hven - a distillery as well as a four star Conference and Hotel resort with Restaurant and Pub. Spirit of Hven Backafallsbyn is situated on an island rich in agricultural heritage. The surrounding region is home to some of Sweden’s absolute best producers of agricultural products, which explains why we at Spirit of Hven emphasise use of local raw materials. Facts about production Spirit of Hven distillery is world unique, one of the worlds smallest commercial pot still distillery, where everything from mashing to fermentation, distilling, maturation and bottling are carried out at site. A small format gives great benefits when wanting to extract maximum scent and taste, a small size gives larger surface area per volume for the chemical reactions to take place and giving the wanted character. In the Spirit of Hven distillery everything is designed to the last bolt for creating the unique character that will go in to one of the world’s best spirits. Spirit of Hven works with long fermentation and a variety of yeast strains to get the right flavour and scent in the final spirit. The three stills with their shell and tub condensers are designed to give the right surface area of copper and the right reflux resulting in a magic combination of scent and taste. Casks and Warehousing The casks and the maturation is the most important part when making wood enhanced spirits, somewhere between 40 and 80 percent of the final character in the spirit evolves here. It is crucial what variety of oak is used, where it has grown and the “terroir” given to the one specific oak. It is also important how the casks have been made and under what circumstances. Another aspect is if the oak is new (virgin), that means the cask have never contained any beverage, or if the casks are refill’s f. ex. old Sherry butts. If the casks previously have contained other beverage, this will affect the flavour profile given from the oak and some of the flavour from the previous beverage will also spice/season the fresh spirit put in the cask. It is because of this Spirit of Hven put enormous effort in finding the right wood all over Europe and USA as well as finding the right producers of Wines and Spirits to season the casks prior to filling them with the distillates from Spirit of Hven. Yet another aspect of oak maturation is the microclimate surrounding the cask during the maturation, the humidity, temperature, relative pressure and the fluctuations of these all come in to play. If the actual air at a specific site makes a difference in the final spirit remains to be seen, but it just might. The final factor for the product is bottling, this as well is a bit more complicated than can be expected. Final product is affected by strength, how the dilution is done and the actual bottling. All alcohol needs to rest a while in its new environment before it can be appreciated fully, strange but still something to take under consideration.