Kilkerran 12 Year Old

Type
Single Malt

Bottler
Distillery Bottling

Distillery
Glengyle

Vintage
Unknown

Stated Age
12 years-old

Bottled
Unknown

Outturn
unknown

Cask Number
unknown

Strength
46.0% abv

Cask Type
unknown

Cask Strength
no

Colouring
no

Single Cask
no

Core Range
yes

Flavour Profile

Butterscotch

Cream

Dried Fruit

Honey

Lemon

Malt

Marzipan

Mixed Herbs

Oak

Oil

Pastry

Pear

Peat

Sea Salt

Sherry

Smoke

Tea Leaves

Vanilla

White Pepper

Wood Spice

Tasting Notes

Nose

A pleasant earthy peat smoke, typical of a Campbeltown whisky. Red apples, pears covered in cream, some butterscotch, lemons, vanilla and honey. There’s a farmy note hanging in the back, almost like muted wet hay, marzipan, tea leaves, light oak and fresh pastry.

Palate

Fleshy fruits and malt sweetness. Sea salt, minerally, oily and a little waxy. Fresh barley and cereals, citrus bitterness with mixed herbs, putty and glazed pastry. There's a nice sherry sweetness sneaking in after being in the glass for 25 minutes.

Finish

Medium to long, more fruit and sweetness appearing, slight bitter oak and more cereal notes. The salt is a bit more apparent now, with a creamy smoke, some spice and a whiff of white pepper, tailing off to a vanilla dryness.

Overall

A very reasonable age statement whisky, can be found for as little as £32! It's a lovely daily dram and is certainly a good starting point for new comers to peated malt. There's always an open bottle of this in the cabinet.

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