Kilchoman 100% Islay (7th Edition)

Scotland, September 2017. Whisky #4, distillery tasting. Nose: Clean barley malt, cider vinegar, fresh oak (virgin?), mild smoke. The nose is gentle and crisp with a cereal aromas taking the centre starge. Palate: Smoky, oily citrus, sourdough bread. Salted nuts, A little astringent with some burn if undiluted. With water considerable sweetness emerges and the texture gains body. Finish: Long. Ashy smoke and licorice. Water opens up the nose and unleashes the smoke and some waxy peat. With dilution the palate is tamed and some sweetness appears. A brisk up-front whisky that lets you know exactly what it's about from the first sniff. For me, Kilchoman expressions have yet to achieve the balance and depth of the older established Islay whiskies but they are very well made and always interesting. I do prefer their more overtly smoky whiskies, however, and even a little time in sherry casks seems to work wonders with this distillate. It is good when aged completely in bourbon, as here, but it can tend to be a little austere and brittle. "Good" : 84/100 (3.75 stars)

50% de alcohol. 100% islay. 7 años de maduración en barricas de bourbon nuevas y usadas. Color natural. Pajizo opaco. En nariz la primera impresión es agua mineral extremadamente iodada. Luego comienzan a aparecer notas frutales como enebro, ciruela y luego una turba tradicional con sus notas amaderadas típicas. Humo. Almendra. Frutos secos ahumados como nuez. Garrapiñada. Pasto recién cortado. Campos de cultivo. Salmuera. Vainilla luego. Madera omnipresente. En boca el matrimonio perfecto entre turba y cereal. Predomina una sensación marina y iodadada sin perder foco de un cereal con tonos aciruelados. Cuerpo medio. Fácil de beber. Da a lugar a un final suave pero con retrogusto duradero y franco. Torna a uva tinta. Pimienta blanca. Maridado con pimienta blanca resalta el dulce a lo toffee, con tabaco latakia muy buen maridaje, aflorando notas acirueladas y de chocolate negro.

Nose - I keep getting burned nosing this. It's acidic, has some candy cigarette notes, light earthy notes, touch of vinegar, and a touch of oak. Taste - so here I get oak, I get liquid cane sugar, caramel, and watery notes. Then the whisky turns peated and you get meats and smoke. Waxy paper notes and smoke. This is pretty below average stuff. Overly hot. Boring flavors for sure. Still there's quality. Lets got with a 1.75. I respect the complexity despite it not being a good thing here yet.

Peat meat bbq smoke thick and nice campfire 3.5 Peppery hot spicy and burns - bud you get Laphroaig medicinal hit, oakiness is strong tooo 1.5 Oaky and long 2.5 2.25 peat and smokey bbq that is close to caol ila, mid pep 3.75 peaty laphroaig-like with a hit of medicinal and iodine, oiliness, thick slick oil and cream, bbq meat, dryness and a little oaky at the back 2.75 long sustain, oaky 2.75 3

Nose: smokey, some citrus. Palate bitter start then big peppery spice and some sweetness for long finish. 3.5 due to price, otherwise it would be 3.75.

Less oakey then expected, lilely due to its young age. Some sweet caramel notes on the palate and a peaty finish with a hint of charcoal