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Kilkerran Heavily Peated batch 5
Single Malt — campbeltown, Scotland
Reviewed
November 22, 2022 (edited January 23, 2023)
N: Lemon curd, lemon cake, vanilla yogurt, toasted marshmallow, cherry pie, dried fish, tennis balls, new tires. Good swirl releases campfire smoke, pine, and bread baking over that campfire. This is the kind you can nose over and over again and never really feel like you hit bottom. Always something new.
P: Vanilla cake with lemon filling, toasted marshmallow again, earth, big wood spice, pine, cherry, herbal tea, mint, ethanol, dash of bitterness, dash of sourness, some salt, caramel. Again, really just keeps coming. Good, round mouthfeel - good weight on the tongue and in the mouth.
F: Slightly medicinal, earthy, herbal, vanilla candy, Tootsie Roll, barrel spice, some more fruit, more anonymous on the finish then elsewhere.
This is just fantastic. It's like they turned the volume up to 11 on the 12 year. 57.7%, but doesn't say it's cask strength, so conceivably they cut it to 115.4 proof, which would be hilarious. I assume it is cask strength though. And it is probably the best cask strength scotch I've ever had. It is completely drinkable at that proof. In fact, delicious. I'm regretting not having bought two of these when I had the chance - not really expecting to see this batch again. But I'll dive into the next one with high hopes.
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I'd be surprised if this was not natural cask strength, but as each batch is a vatting of several casks there's probably one or two that were a bit leaky and they pulled the average abv down.