The Savu is a new product from Finland, designed to enhance enjoyment of your favourite tipple. We blind-tested it.
Already a subscriber?The booze world is full of gadgets and widgets that come with big claims about enhancing the enjoyment of your favourite liquid.
At least, that’s the theory. The argument is that the alcohol in whisky – which usually sits at around 40 per cent but can top 60 per cent in cask-strength bottlings – can have a numbing or burning effect in the nostrils for many tasters, and mask other smells. By reducing the ethanol, the “true” enjoyment of the liquid can be achieved.
So, I arranged a blind smell test. I asked my trusty assistant to pour the recommended 20ml of liquid into the Savu and three other glasses: a straight-sided, cut-glass tumbler; a Glencairn tulip-shaped glass commonly used at whisky tastings; and a Denver & Liely, the wide-bottomed Australian-designed whisky glass I often use at home.
The Savu had a similar effect on the Lagavulin: the unmistakeable smoky, medicinal peatiness was there in all the glasses but in the Savu it was as though someone had turned the aroma knob up to 11 or 12. The Lagavulin wasn’t just peaty in the Savu, it was positively tarry, like a noseful of freshly laid bitumen on a hot day.
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