Kilkerran reviews

Glengyle distillery is owned by the Mitchell family...who also own Springbank. Call it naiveté but that was enough to get me to buy a bottle. It's not cheap for a 12 Year Old, even by Ontario standards…

This is an interesting one for me. The timeline can be confusing but here goes:In December 2017 @Robert99 was kind enough to leave me a sample of this after an epic tasting we had at my home. I opened…

So, after a lot of "Work in Progress" releases (nice idea, though I haven't had any opportunity to try any of them but I'm curious about a few as they have had raving reviews) Kilkerran has now released…

I purchased this bottle almost a year ago. It was sitting on the shelf of a liquor chain shop right across the road from our nearest supermarket (which I tend to frequent even though they aren’t the…

I've been chipping away at this one for almost a couple of months now and it is a bit of a chameleon malt. I feel I could review this tomorrow and have a distinctly different take on it.This is from a…

This is my first Kilkerran. Usually, I am not a fan of Campbeltown whisky because I often get rotten vegetal notes on the nose and the palate. Let see if it is different.Yep. It is. This is my third dram…

After production at the new Glengyle distillery began in 2004, the company released a number of "work-in-progress" (WIP) bottlings, starting with the 1st release in 2009 and ending with the two 7th…

The nose is very malty and a bit zesty to begin with. After a while, notes of vanilla and butter cookies appear, followed by a touch of caramel and a good dose of smoke.The palate is medium-bodied and…

Sometimes one cannot praise a distillery enough. Kilkerran is a rising star. Kilkerran produces great whiskies which are affordable. Kilkerran 12 is a perfect example of a traditional whisky and I am…

Glengyle distillery, originally founded in 1872, had been closed for more than half a century when it was acquired in 2000 by Hedley Wright, owner of Springbank distillery. Production at the new Glengyle…