Kilkerran Bourbon Cask

Kilkerran 8 Year Old 2007 Barolo Wine Cask for The Nectar

I first tried this bottling for The Nectar at the Spirits in the Sky 2015 festival. I felt it was sublime. We are now more than 6 months later. High time to try this one again, from the sample that I scored at the festival. This Kilkerran was finished on a Barolo wine cask and bottled at a whopping 61%. It has a bright copper color and sticks to...

Score 88/100

Kilkerran 15 Year Old Single Cask

This was the second sample I tasted in the blind trio provided by @cricklewood It was the one I guessed correctly (sort of). The tastings were done from a Highland Whisky glass. **Tasting notes (neat and blind)** * Nose: farmy, like wet hay, a touch of peat, bright and high-pitched, sour green apples, some caramel, eucalyptus * Palate: sweet on...

Score 90/100

Kilkerran Work in Progress 5 Sherry Cask

When I saw Serge V's review of this little beastie, I went out and snagged a bottle. Still have some left. Boy, was I disappointed upon first opening the bottle. But after some time went by (as in the better part of a year), things looked up for the bedraggled bottle lurking in the back of my liquor cabinet. Upon first opening the bottle: Nose:...

Score 88/100

Kilkerran Work in Progress 1

This is the first release from the Glengyle distillery sinds the re-opening in the new millennium. It’s a very young whisky (only 5 years old), distilled in March 2004 and bottled in 2009. The second release dates from Juni 2010. Every year, Glengyle plans to release about 12.000 bottles to allow people to sample this ‘Work in Progress’, until it...

Score 81/100