High Coast Hav, 48%

A culture of high-quality craftsmanship, innovation, and environmental consciousness sets Nordic whiskies apart from other world whiskies. Hav, Swedish for the sea, is part of High Coast'sexceptional Origins series, and its flavor shorthand is oak spice. Wood spices, peatsmoke, vanilla cream, and orange peel on the nose precede a lush palate of fruit and spicedisplaying sweet apricot, peach, honey, and dried tropical fruits, with a lengthy, spicyfinish. Matured in bourbon casks, it mingles batches of peated and unpeated spirit, withsome components receiving an accelerator period in 40-liter casks coopered fromHungarian and Swedish oak.Number 6 in the 2021 Top 20