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Kilkerran 8 Cask Strength (2021)
Single Malt — Campbeltown , Scotland
Reviewed
July 16, 2021 (edited October 25, 2021)
I'm a fool...but 399th review. Might as well review something I have low expectations on.
Nose - funky...someone else said but darn if it's not some kind of cheese meets some confectionery candy. Then I get young cooking red wine. Coastal levels of salt and roasted oak. I thought this was fresh, not another recharred? But it's coming off pretty darn sherry. It's a really meaty malty salty body with red wine funk and youth all over it. I don't however hate it.
Taste - I don't hate this one at all! Oh goodness, there's some good stuff going on here. The arrival is sweet malty goodness with hints of milk chocolate. I get some fruity elements, some big bold malt, the wine that came off so funky before is pleasant and nice now. It's a bit sour at the back end, it's got some youth for sure, and everyone saying there's sulfur on here is dead on. And each taste there's more sulfer, but it's got such a nice clean arrival, it almost balances things out.
Guys, I think this is a perfectly pleasant and reasonably enjoyable CS sherry bomb. You better be ok with sulfur and you better be ok with youthful alcohol bite.
For me 2 stars, this is average whisky and that's perfectly fine for what it is. If you see one, I'd get. But you better not be sensitive to sulfur.
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Upping the score to a 2.25, the whisky is really yummy and butter scotch and chocolate are really coming out. Again if you don't like sulfur run.
@PBMichiganWolverine to be fair, much like my review above, all the reviews were off of neck pours. Nobody's had time with this. And this is flat out way better than the last 8 which has great reviews. Similarly, the whiskybase score on this is crazy high.
Another one that sold out in seconds, despite subpar reviews