Kilchoman Private Cask Bottling #2006/81

Kilchoman Single Bourbon Cask 11 YO

I was privileged to try this tonight. I’ve been looking at this _mystery sample_ from **@OdysseusUnbound** for a while since he dropped it off in our last swap. Instead of adding it to the 80 samples in a drawer of my cabinet, I used it to help set up a mini-cabinet in my office. The thought was making some samples more accessible might make it...

Score 89/100

Kilchoman Single Cask Bourbon

I've been on a bit of a Kilchoman run of late. Nothing intentional. Just a series of coincidences that's all. Came back from Islay after tasting a bunch. Organized a tasting which featured a couple. Got invited to a tasting which had four expressions on the menu. So, really, not my fault. Anyway. It was at this very Kilchoman tasting that I had...

Score 89/100

Kilchoman Machir Bay bottled 2014

A youngster from Kilchoman - Don’t know the age, but boy I wish I did *sigh*. All I know is it’s obviously young, and typically you just want the assurances that you aren’t messing around with jailbait, amiright? Nose: Delicious farmy style peat - hay, fresh cut grass, citrus sweetness. Palate: Vanilla, grassy peat, hint of new make but not in...

Score 87/100

Kilchoman 7 Year Old 2011 Madeira Finish - Twin Cask Release for Prima Vinum

Prima Vinum – a Belgian whisky shop – was looking for a single cask release of Kilchoman. But the owner, Peter Van Dijck, was faced with a dilemma, for the two samples he received were both very much to his liking. Cask #528 was filled on 1st September 2011, cask #764 on the 9th December of the same year. Both bourbon barrels shaped this...

Score 87/100