High Coast Dàlvve Signature
46% ABV.
High Coast Dàlvve The Signature Malt is something of a milestone in our distillery history. When it was presented in November 2016, it was our first on-going product that stepped into the whisky world. Matured on average for five years in first fill bourbon barrels, medium smoky style at 46% ABV, light yet tasteful, it immediately became a success.
Dàlvve means winter in southern Sami and was our first on going product which can be seen as a tribute to what makes our distillery unique, the changing seasons. In November 2016, the first batch was launched at Systembolaget, (the first time in a 70 cl bottle from our distillery). It was an immediate success and in April 2017, Dàlvve became part of Systembolaget’s regular range. Dálvve The Signature Malt has been produced continuously in batches since the premiere, holding to the same recipe, but of course with possible small variations depending on the casks. The base is just over 5 years old Bourbon barrrel matured whisky from 200 liter barrels, of which, about a quarter contains peated malt whisky. The alcohol content is 46% and the whisky, like all of our whiskies is neither coloured nor chill filtered.
Many distilleries make fantastic whisky, but a few succeed in making it better than others. As always there is not right or wrong when it comes to personal taste, but quality, accuracy and conditions separate distilleries from each other. There’s a lot of crucial elements that make High Coast distillery unique, here a are few important features.
We gladly admit that we are at the absolute outskirts of the whisky world. Far from the motorways and far from the world’s whisky stores, but we are where we are because we know what the nature up here provides to us. It is not the northern nature in itself that makes our whisky special – even if the forests, expanses and the high clean air certainly do their part. We do not believe that there is any distillery in the world that has such large temperature variations in its warehouses as the High Coast Distillery.
The temperature variations between summer and winter and between day and night are dramatic in Norrland. A cold winter can take the temperature to 30 degrees below zero and hot summer days it can be almost 70 degrees warmer. Whisky that matures in the large, unheated warehouses is exposed to the enormous forces of nature. During hot days, the pressure in the barrels increase, the whisky expands and penetrates deeper into the oak. Deep inside the barrel, the oak’s flavours are released, which come out when the temperature and pressure drop again. The temperature changes are ongoing, day and night. They accelerate parts of the maturation process and contribute to a unique flavor development.
