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October 19, 2024
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Angus’s Nook
From our correspondent and
expert taster Angus MacRaild in ScotlandTwo Kilchoman
Islay’s farm distillery goes to be twenty years outdated subsequent yr, it will additionally co-incidentally be twenty years since I began working at Ardbeg as a tour information. Time continues its relentless onward march! Nevertheless it’s additionally the rationale that there are an increasing number of Kilchomans above ten years outdated available on the market lately, which is nice information as virtually all that I might attempt to date have been glorious. We’ll examine in with two extra of them in the present day… |
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Kilchoman 10 yo 2013/2023 ‘100% Islay’ (55.5%, OB for Kensington Wine Market, cask #27, bourbon barrel, 243 bottles) 
Color: straw. Nostril: very maritime at first, with sturdy impressions of rock swimming pools, seashore sand, moist kelp and shellfish broth. However there’s additionally a bone-dry ashy notice, together with oily sheep wool, moist plaster, puffer smoke and mineral salts. Extraordinarily exact and sharp! With water: an virtually acrid, brittle smokiness, wooden ashes and freshly starched linens. Extra impressions of seawater, moist plaster, limestone and a tiny peeling of grapefruit pores and skin. Mouth: relatively natural and oily up entrance, plenty of ashy and lemon peat smoke, tar, whelks, cornichons in brine and mercurochrome. Pristine and really chiselled as soon as once more. With water: smoked olive oil, lemon barley water, sardines in oil, camphor, pure peat smoke and a few TCP. End: lengthy, salty, tarry, relatively a number of bacon rind and pork scratching and a few preserved lemons in brine. Feedback: superb precision and purity, and one other one which appears to tread a really wonderful line between seashore and farmyard, little question a whisky that may have Serge reaching for his beloved ‘millimetric’ descriptor…
SGP: 367 – 88 factors.
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Kilchoman 11 yo 2011/2023 (54.5%, OB for The Whisky Present, cask #771, bourbon barrel)
Color: shiny straw. Nostril: equally focussed on maritime qualities, moist pebbles, rock pool, mineral salts, coastal flowers and drying seaweed. Additionally some charmingly shiny lemony notes, I am general getting the identical feeling of precision, purity and focus that the 2013 had. With water: funnily sufficient, I discover curry leaf now, but additionally extra seashore notes, briny and citric impression and this acquainted farmyard notice that goes actually in the direction of sheep wool and Barbour grease. Mouth: extraordinarily ashy, nervous, lemony, filled with pure, sharp peat smoke, bonfire embers, pure tar extracts, hessian and cod liver oil. A couple of glimmers of softer, citrus fruit notes behind all that. With water: pure, bone dry, extremely mineral, chiselled and filled with uncooked cereals, smoked oats, ales and camphor. End: lengthy, salty, drying, tarry and smoky. Feedback: we’re so very near the wonderful 2013, is this sort of dry, extremely chiselled, pure profile a Kilchoman distillery character that is right here to remain now?
SGP: 467 – 88 factors.
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