Rosencrantz
Kilchoman STR Cask Matured (2019 Edition)
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed
January 25, 2020 (edited September 9, 2020)
The smell is very delicate, with a soft sweetness of cooked apples, marzipan, honey, dates. The peat gradually opens, suspended between the herbaceous and the smoke, carried by a sea breeze that seems to caress the other aromas. Balanced and elegant.
On the palate the peat rises with imperious heat, compact and oily, raising a cloud of smoke in which banana, olives and chili pepper are mixed, a pinch of anise, ripe apple, cinnamon... it is a succession of very different aromas and impressions between them, a layered and complex malt, it takes time to untangle this skein. Hints of wood in the background, the peat that passes from herbaceous to fleshy, with the ash that mixes in the sea water. Tobacco. Lemon. It never really ends: the alcohol content is well integrated, one would drink it endlessly to find other aromas, other suggestions.
The finish is long, with ash, sea, banana, vanilla and spices.
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