Kilchoman Inaugural 100% Islay 50%abv

(LFW comments) Hugely entertaining peaty dram from Islay’s new go-it-aloners.

Kilchoman’s remarkable history develops with this limited first release of whisky entirely sourced, produced and packaged on site. Is this all-Islay production the first ever such achievement? This is also the first appearance of their new bespoke (at 2kg, very-heavy-for-shipping-overseas) bottle.

A glass-filling aroma that canoodles the nose; soft, peaty, lemon, biscuit, lime, smoke………. Sea-spray made with butter…

A unique tongue experience! It neutralises the sweet and goes straight to bitter, then salt, then the sweet recovers and the swallow clicks with the sour, it’s hardly balanced – but it is very instructive, hugely entertaining and sooooo subtly overstated! Returning to the glass it’s vegetative, salty with a lively smoke, weirdly both very peaty and yet only subtly phenolic. With water it becomes something that should be served in ‘lashings’ (as in “a picnic with lashings of pop! Hurrah!”) Best served in pint pots.

Still the peat comes and goes… Chewy and nutty with a long playful finish. Another perfect whisky that dismisses concepts of age in single malts, and an ace, well done!

On the Flavour map I have it in square F10
On the smoky side of light and smoky

Kilchoman Inaugral 100% Islay
Barcode: 5060210700140

Very limited and so strictly restricted to 2 bottles per customer.

Overseas Customers: This is a very heavy bottle and a shipping supplement is applied.

Price excluding VAT: £56.58
£67.90 Including VAT at 20%

Anthony Wills & his 100% Islay Kilchoman

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