Issue1 TasteBound compressed - Flipbook - Page 97
Bogi Mouritsen’s Faer
Isles whisky is a hugely
promising work in
progress, while his gin
and vodka are both
earning many fans
45-minute drive from Tórshavn, Bogi Mouritsen’s
Faer Isles whisky waits quietly on a striking
outcrop near Vestmanna. There’s still another
year before it’s ready, but a sip of the two-yearold new make is a promising thump of peat and
daedal notes that warm the tip of the tongue.
When a Scot described the ideal conditions for making
whisky, Bogi realised the Faroes had them all
in abundance. Including their own peat, once fuel for
Norwegian Viking settlers.
Faer Isles Distillery’s catalogue isn’t limited to not-yet
whisky. Its vodka is mind-blowing – its foundation being
the water from a 1,000-year-old subterranean freshwater
lake, tapped during a tunnel build. Its gin, meanwhile, uses
Faroe botanicals such as angelica and rhubarb, sourced from
the same neighbouring farmer who quietly supplied Noma
restaurant for years. Agnes Mols Mortensen, a friend,
macroalgal biologist and seaweed farmer, provides
‘Ocean Spaghetti’ and ‘Sea Truffle’ for the aquavits.
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