Categorie: K
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Kilkerran Heavily Peated – a story that was never meant to be? he Kilkerran Distillery just recently celebrated its twentieth birthday. The range of expressions from the distillery is becoming more and more clear, with regular releases of a 12 and 16 years old, more special 8 years old at higher strength, and for some…
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Kilchoman Sanaig: a fight between the barn and the cask Kilchoman opened almost 20 years ago as a farm distillery. A small operation, with everything done on site, little stills, and putting out young peated giants ever since that first release back in 2009. That 2009 release was the first whisky after three years, but…
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Going to Japanese whisky heaven with Yamazaki (Suntory) and Miyagikyo (Nikka) Another visit to Japan, after doing a blog about two Yoichi single malt whisky’s two weeks ago. I have to admit that my original intention was to post today’s blog then. It was Saturday 6 April, and coincidentally the Miyagikyo that we taste today, was distilled…
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Funky little thing: a new sherried batch Kilkerran 8 The true Campbeltown character is, by those in the know, described as being “funky”. If you tasted a few expressions from whatever distillery or variant (Longrow, Hazelburn), you can easily get the thinking behind this. I used to think Glen Scotia might be the most funky…