Kilkerran 

Heavily Peated Batch 9

This small batch release from Kilkerran Distillery sure is a big dram.  Heavily peated and bottled at a cask strength of 59.2%, it is a combination of bourbon and sherry casks, with the majority of bourbon casks. This small batch was bottled without chill-filtration or artificial colouring.

TASTING NOTES

NOSE  Notes of freshly baked shortbread, cream soda, banana loaf and coconut shavings.

PALATE The creamy, vanilla notes carry through to the palate in notes of buttered digestive biscuits and custard creams.

FINISH Prominent peat, along with hints of gooseberries.

£48.99

A LITTLE ABOUT THE DISTILLERY

There were a few attempts to reopen the distillery, the very last and successful one was in November 2000, 75 years after Glengyle had last produced spirit, it was announced that a new company had bought the buildings, Mitchell’s Glengyle Limited, headed by Mr Hedley Wright, chairman of J&A Mitchell and Co Ltd, and great-great nephew of William Mitchell, the original founder of Glengyle.

Mitchell’s Glengyle Distillery was founded by William Mitchell in 1872, and he ran the distillery as its sole proprietor. Like most Campbeltown distilleries, Glengyle suffered greatly during the economic downturn at the beginning of the 20th century. It was bought by West Highland Malt Distilleries Ltd in 1919, then sold again in 1924 for the princely sum of £300 before production finally ceased altogether in 1925. The entire spirit stock from the Glengyle Distillery was auctioned off on the 8th of April that same year.