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| Hello, that is certainly one of our (virtually) each day tastings. Santé! |
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August 12, 2021
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Kilkerran, that is the Springbank-operated and owned Glengyle Distillery in Campbeltown. After all I am a die-hard Springbank fan however nonetheless, I discover it unimaginable that they might have managed to provide you with such a excessive, and really coherent high quality. Once you attempt them you could possibly virtually consider that they had been distilled at.. Springbank. Let’s examine what we’ve got gathered… Oh and I appear to do not forget that the ex-Ben Wyvis stills have been put in at Glengyle. Am I mistaken? However who remembers Ben Wyvis?
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Kilkerran 5 yo ‘Closely Peated’ (58.2%, OB, On-line Tasting Week 2021, 1303 bottles) 
This one was all the trend in… Could. Certainly we’re late as ever. Color: deep gold. Nostril: there’s one thing of a younger bourbon on this child, arduous to elucidate. Then reasonably smoked bacon and burning plastics (which may be good underneath some uncommon circumstances), typical horse saddle and cow dung, chilly cuts, leather-based, linseed oil, a number of thyme (thyme tea), Bulldog sauce, outdated tobacco pouch, oil paint… Boy does it inform tales! With water: bursts with smoked butterscotch! Did anyone ever tried to smoke butterscotch? Mouth (neat): so good, so whacky, so strong and rustic, so smoky, plastic-like, dried-orange-y, with some lavender-flavoured chocolate, a wee feeling of consuming cologne at occasions, and typically Rochelt’s greatest as a substitute. Powerful and charming. Forgot to say heavy gingerbread. With water: water makes the feel even oilier. Bitter oranges, turmeric, that bacon once more, beef jerky, ras-el-hanout, heather honey… End: very lengthy however by no means stuffy. Pepper, demerara sugar and oranges within the aftertaste. Feedback: the form of tipple that hardcore tasters will get pleasure from, for they’re so uncommon and entertaining. Very prime quality/age KPI.
SGP:565 – 89 factors. |
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Kilkerran ‘Closely Peated Batch 4’ (58.6%, OB, Peat in Progress, 2021) 
I have been neglecting these sequence for years, I consider I am completely responsible of wilful misconduct. However bear in mind the numbers of recent bottlings have multiplied twentyfold since we began this very awful web site. Color: white wine. Nostril: reasonably superb. Brake fluid, contemporary panettone, ink, outdated wine cellar, church candles, seawater, mashed turnips and peas, then dried kelp and large fats mussels. Stressed and mischievous. With water: uncooked lambswool and damp plaster, mud, and simply Scottish seashore sand. A drop of wine vinegar. Mouth (neat): a lot tighter than on the nostril, though very oily so far as the feel is worried, reasonably on lemon, yoghurt, bitter wine and lotions, and the greenest rhubarb ever. A fighter. With water: it might win utilizing tropical fruits (too straightforward) and a brighter ‘oystery’ peatiness. Briefly, it received far more coastal. End: identical, lengthy and coastal. Oysters with some honey and Tabasco sauce, in addition to kippers, clams and mussels. Feedback: I might completely perceive why Kilkerran would stay a bit of controversial, it is actually not a consensual malt. Both it clicks or it does not. It will form of chain-click at Château Whiskyfun.
SGP:466 – 90 factors. |
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As I mentioned, we have been lazy and naturally, we have got some older KK stuff…
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Kilkerran 8 yo ‘Cask Power Batch 4’ (57.1%, OB, Re-charred oloroso cask, 15,000 bottles, 2019)
Re-charred oloroso sherry casks, that makes or breaks. Color: darkish amber. Nostril: effectively, burnt plastics and new iPhone at first, then younger balsamic vinegar and outdated books and papers, then hectolitres of maraschino and guignolet. Briefly, very heavy sherry that simply offsets any peatiness, even essentially the most motivated one (ha!) With water: extra saltiness, gravy, balsamic vinegar, charcoal and pine oil. You would use this as some embrocation however that may be a bit of smelly. Yeah a Cosmo-Kramer form of concept. Mouth (neat): after they say re-charred oloroso, are they re-olorosoing the cask after it has been deep-burnt? I am asking as a result of that is what I am feeling, with this heavy, excessive focus of sherry-caramel that even the craziest PXs would not show. Huge black raisins, caramel certainly, and overcooked molasses. Reasonably menthol and liquorice than ‘peat’, apart from. With water: effectively the peat stays buried underneath tons of marmalade-y sherry. We’ll want a spoon to get the stays out of our tulip glass. End: very lengthy and curiously lighter, as if the armistice was simply signed. Orange wine and a contact of pencil shaving. Espresso, Cointreau and cigarette ashes within the aftertaste. Feedback: what a journey! I just like the brighter ones a bit of higher however this one was an unimaginable storyteller. Warfare, gloom and doom, rejoicing and celebrations.
SGP:564 – 88 factors. |
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Let’s make this a quartet.
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Kilkerran ‘Closely Peated Batch 2’ (60.9%, OB, Peat in Progress, 2019) 
55% bourbon and 45% sherry. Between us, I am unsure the world wants this a lot peat and I would favor that past a number of exceptions similar to, sure, Springbank, most distilleries would discover their greatest types and never attempt to make simply ‘any variants’, which all the time sounds a bit of determined, unsecure, vulgar and inelegant. However there, let’s do that child… Color: gold. Nostril: a lot narrower than Batch 4, shy and discreet, however maybe is that the very excessive power? Washing powder, baker’s yeast, paraffin, starfruits, physalis, gooseberries… Briefly, there is not a lot to scent at this level. With water: sameish. Mouth (neat): good basic heavy peater ala trendy Laphroaig. When you ever run out of antiseptics… With water: ah there it takes off, remaining oily and even fats, however displaying pretty lemons of all types and certainly a reasonably medicinal peatiness. Iodine, lime, oysters, cockles… I may drink this with Oostende’s famed shrimp croquettes. End: lengthy, tight and brilliant, and certainly reasonably Laphroaiggy. Feedback: extraordinarily good, however I am unsure it might stand out subsequent to Islay’s cream. Extra anecdotal than the magnificent batch 4.
SGP:566 – 85 factors. |
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