Stauning 2014

Stauning is a new Danish distillery from 2009. I would recommend everybody to read about their history and how 9 friends started to distill a single barrel whisky, and found it so good that they established a distillery that Jim Murray has compared to Ardbeg (in regard of their spirit). Stauning make everything themselves, and you are getting around every process on the tour, and you can tell right away that they are very committed. 

I give the visit the score 7 out of 10. Not much have to be improved to reach a higher score, but here are two downsides. It is a very popular tourist attraction, so we were over 100 people present. They divided the group into 2 groups, so over 50 persons per tour. That is to many people and it isn’t possible to buy an extended tour. And this is where the second downside comes into play. At the end you are only served three 1 cl samples. One a young rye that is only 20 month old, so it is not even a whisky. But it is a young distillery, and I expect that there will be more whisky to taste in the future. I will give this visit 7 out of 10.