Part V of “No Age Statement Week”

Kilchoman NAS 39.5 Months (46%, OB, ‘Spring Release 2010’)

Yet another No Age Statement (NAS) bottling from Kilchoman Distillery, come on chaps, it’s time you started with age statements…

The nose starts wafting out of the glass and is detectable from 12 inches away, coffee grounds and cold toast. Up close and personal there is peat smoke, hints of juniper, a little fragrant gin and then the peat smoke again. A little gentler on the nose than previous bottlings perhaps? Still very good none the less.  The taste is chocolate peated malt, burnt twigs and some more of the juniper (at first) but then it starts to grow and the peat smoke turns a little to reveal a peanut butter like characteristic along with some good malt. It tastes very good and after a moment or two the chocolate malt and peat are the dominant characteristics. The finish is chewy along with malt and the ever present peat smoke (with hints of the jumpier) and a sensational moment of dark chocolate bitterness. AND Liquorice.

Despite the lack of an age statement (you can’t hide forever chaps) it’s another cracker of a bottlings from Kilchoman Distillery.

C$80

Score 86 points

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