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Oslo Handverksdestilleri Distillery
When is a wine ready to drink?
We provide drinking windows for all our wines. Alongside the drinking windows there is a bottle icon and a maturity stage. Bear in mind that the best time to drink a wine does also depend on your taste.
Not ready
These wines are very young. Whilst they're likely to have lots of intense flavours, their acidity or tannins may make them feel austere. Although it isn't "wrong" to drink these wines now, you are likely to miss out on a lot of complexity by not waiting for them to mature.
Ready - youthful
These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.
Ready - at best
These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.
Ready - mature
These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.
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Description
OHD Akevitt has been matured for 12 months in American oak casks that give the spirit its light golden hue and full-bodied character. After a long history of state monopolies on alcohol production in Norway leading to total control of the market, OHD wants to bring authenticity back to the akevitt category.
At OHD we follow our own path and style, using only botanicals found in Norway. We have carefully sourced locally foraged ingredients such as meadowsweet, heather flower, St. John's wort, dandelion root, yarrow, chamomile flower, sorrel, hyssop and horehound to use in our recipe.
Tasting Notes
Nose: Meadow sweet and heather make way for a smooth caraway and spice lead.
Palate: Caraway hit leading in to floral anise.
Finish: Citrus oil, minerals and a long dry, herbal finish.
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