Glengyle Distillery Kilkerran Heavily Peated Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml) - Batch 12

"Of all the Heavily Peated releases, the latest one is the best so far.../ A different class altogether. " - whiskybase.com

Campbeltown’s cult favourite Kilkerran returns with what is being talked up by some as the best batch yet. Indeed, the style seems to be getting more and more Springbanky... Released twice per year at natural strength and peated to around 45PPM, the cask makeup this time around is 90% bourbon and 10% sherry, leaving the focus on complex coastal peat and sweet vanilla with just a touch of dried fruit. At near 60% ABV, it guarantees a blast. 58.4% Alc./Vol. Non-chill filtered.

Other reviews... Immediately super fruity + Campbeltown style + Springbank smoke style ! Already fat on the nose, a certain citrusy note, alcool impressively well integrated, motor oil. Taste: Exotic fruit explosion, peat and smoke also, and unfortunately the alcool also, but it still ok, just a bit over the borderline let say. Honey, biscuit, vanilla. Oily and fat structure. Finish: Really nice and long, and not only because of the strength. Peat, white pepper, exotic fruit in big quantity, oak, peach, mineral part finally here, silex. Unbeatable quality/price ratio to me. - whiskybase.com

...The Kilkerran is more developed here, with a sticky, dirty mineral waxiness, plasticine, coal smoke and lime. A different class altogether. - whiskybase.com

...Batch 11 from 2024 had been superb (WF 87) and in any case, we've resolved to follow these batches through thick and thin. Colour: straw. Nose: we're immediately very close to smoked barley, citron peel, bread dough, iodine tincture, oysters and massage balm, something in the vein of Voltarol. One can only think of Lagavulin 12 SR. With water: zero development, everything was already present from the start. Perhaps a few touches of soaked plaster. Mouth (neat): it's terrific how simple and how excellent this is. Warm, packed with barley, grist, husks, anything you might wish for post-processing, all of it smoked over beechwood and salted with Himalayan salt (alright, that's a bit much). With water: the citrus surges forth but coastal salinity keeps everything under control. Finish: long, tense, more fermentary. The apparent youth is making itself known. Comments: I get the feeling these versions are becoming peatier and peatier, though I could be wrong. 87 points - whiskyfun.com