ASCEND Elysia

Elysia was born from an ambition: to create the first great Mediterranean single malt, under the blazing sun and in the arid lands of Cyprus. It all began with a meeting between Alexandre Sakon, creator of the NEOC barrel, and Aristide Aristidou, a seasoned distiller recently returned from the United States. Their deliberate choice of an island as a production site imposes constraints that force Elysia's singularity. Its Kythrea barley is cultivated locally according to ancestral practices, then malted and roasted in the distillery itself. In the latter, the iconoclastic still, combining the latest technologies, allows for a masterful work, adjusting every detail to capture the essence of Cypriot barley. Finally, aging in NEOC barrels, recycled from the great vintages, concentrates the aromas in a climate whose low humidity tightens the wood fibers. An ode to resilience, Elysia is a return to the source, an immersion in a land both arid and fertile. A whisky born from an island where everything remains to be written, where the expression of the earth is imprinted without filter, in a raw and sincere harmony.