Finished in ex-raspberry wine casks (“Vilkdhallon” means “wild raspberries”).
Nose: Alcohol. After a while peach and lemon, and quite a bit of vanilla.
Palate: The cask is present, even if I doubt “raspberry” would have been my first thought had I had this blind. I get more of a rhubarb, actually. And citrus. A lot of vannilin, so one suspects relatively new oak. In the background I find raspberry jam.
Comments: This stretches the concept of whisky, really, something it shares with a few other “finishes”. This does not make it a bad product, in fact it is rather nice, but it raises issues with branding.
Arve says it was much more raspberry-like from a newly opened bottle, my sample has had some air.