Absolut ELYX Magnum 70cl / 42.3% Sweden

Single Estate Handcrafted Vodka

Manually Crafted in a 1921 Copper Column Still

Absolutely, Sweden's most famous vodka maker, impressed with its design products which Vodka- and spirits scene and does still. Most optically interestingly designed labels will contain only the standard Vodka of the house and also flavored versions are based on it. With the absolute Elyx you show in the Swedish village Åhus but also that you can produce high-end vodka.
Hardly any other liquor manufacturer has such a reputation developed over the past years as a design fetishist like Absolut Vodka. The Swedes usually take it their standard bottle and let the world enjoy themselves because artists. The results are usually quite exciting, usually quite expensive and usually only Collectibles.
And even if you can not see the forest from the various flavorings such as Absolut Cherry crane, Orient Apple or Gräpevine the trees, provides the vodka maker with the absolute Elyx a premium vodka from.
Unlike Absoluts flagship, which has become roundish bottle and blue characters to standard, it is considered the absolute Elyx rather with rounded corners and bronze-colored label and closure.
The color is intended to indicate the copper that was used in the preparation as a catalyst. Similar to the production of other spirits that are distilled in copper pot stills, "accelerated" the metal decomposition unpleasant sulfur compounds such as hydrogen sulfide.
Tasting the absolute Elyx
The absolute Elyx showed already in the nose, that he has the important qualities of a high-quality vodkas such as softness, gentleness and no negative alcohol notes, in addition, it was extraordinary "creamy" in the nose. In addition, the Elyx had with vanilla already at Nosing an aroma that permeated through the mouth to the palate.
As in the nose of Absolut Elyx including inside the mouth was very soft and creamy. Again saw a hint of vanilla for a not so conventional impression.
The ace in the sleeve pulled the Elyx but only in the aftertaste. Again subtle vanilla was available, but with a little bitter aftertaste. Unlike many other vodkas but it did not immediately disappear from the palate, but remained unusually long-lasting and malty without unpleasant burning aftertaste.