This Kilkerran is a 10-year-old that was part of the penultimate pair of releases in the years leading up to the debut of the distillery's permanent 12-year bottling. The nose has typical sherry notes of raisins, brown sugar and orange rind. In the mouth, it's a little one-dimensionally sherry-flavored at first but opens up after a while to reveal more distinct hints of orange, carrot cake and sweet tea. The finish is generously long and tangy. It's a very tasty whisky once it's had some time to relax, but it's more about the wood than the spirit and doesn't appear to share any obvious DNA with the 12-year.