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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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April 28, 2025
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WF’s Little Duos, as we speak Kilkerran from Glengyle
Again within the Wee Toon, listening to Andy Stewart and awaiting David Stirk’s new e book on Campbeltown’s whiskies, titled within the model of Fritz Lang: Whiskyopolis.
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Kilkerran 16 yo (46%, OB, 2024) 
Matured in bourbon, sherry and simply the tiniest sprint of rum (5%) We shan’t be asking, at that dose, what kind of rum it was. Simply think about, it appears this is likely to be the primary time we’ve tasted one in all these sixteen-year-olds, which have existed since 2020. Naturally, since Glengyle first began talking up again in 2004. Color: straw. Nostril: one slightly will get the sensation of present process an inhalation of lemon and apple juice, rapidly adopted by crushed chalk, sourdough and a smidgen of paraffin oil, very a lot within the trendy Springbank model. Extraordinarily delicate hints of aniseed and cumin float simply above this elegant and mineral-driven construction. A minute dab of salted contemporary mango someplace within the distance. Mouth: I’ve at all times discovered it fairly amusing that Glengyle positioned itself in Springbank’s slipstream slightly than choosing one thing completely completely different. Then once more, you would possibly say, when the recipe works, why meddle? That is instantly salty, chalky, with that ‘good sulphur’ you’ll usually discover at Springbank, together with boot polish, ashes, that well-known artisanal mezcal notice, some clay, olive brine, and even a couple of white asparagus ideas nudging their manner in. End: related once more, of high quality size, with lemon returning as a sort of home signature. Feedback: it’s elegant, it’s charming, it’s mineral and really salty, and it’s jolly pretty. Simply what we had been anticipating.
SGP:452 – 88 factors. |
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Kilkerran ‘Closely Peated Batch 11’ (57.9%, OB, 2024) 
Each batch 9 (WF 86) and batch 10 (WF 85) had been wonderful, although maybe ever so barely immature, a tad on the tough aspect for my style, however let’s admit it, we had been nitpicking. Color: straw. Nostril: it’s the 16-year-old, solely youthful, livelier, and above all way more medicinal. With gallons of iodine tincture and mercurochrome, sea water and a splash of lemon balm infusion, one might virtually use this as a balm, an anaesthetic or certainly as a repellent towards mosquitoes and, extra crucially, midges. Nicely, no ensures there. We prefer it. With water: properly now, it rounds out and softens utterly, but additionally brings seaweed and, above all, loads of sage and tarragon. Price making an attempt in a béarnaise sauce. Mouth (neat): this slaps you twice throughout the face, a correct one-two. Brimming with salt, ashes, camphor, iodine tincture, lime, oysters and smoked fish. With water: a extra classical peater, although nonetheless immensely salty, with notes of machine oil and even penetrating oil. Might turn out to be useful. End: very lengthy, with salt, lemon and bitter almonds. Black pepper within the aftertaste. Feedback: hey, we’re transferring ahead! A high quality beast, actually. We should always arrange a blind tasting, twelve younger Longrows versus twelve younger Kilkerrans. Who do you reckon would win?
SGP:455 – 87 factors. |
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