It's Thanksgiving here in Canada. We at Scotch & Ponder are thankful for friendship, which means we're thankful for people. We're also thankful for scotch, which means we're thankful for the chemistry that allows for fermentation and distilling. Those two together means we're thankful for practically everything. Cheers Canada!
We're tasting Kilkerran 12 tonight.
We sniff around. The nose is straightforward. There's a light peat that stands out, and brine forward. There's also a faint and vague sweetness that comes in and out of our nostrils' range.
Cheers!
Very salty scotch. The salt is nearly overpowering.
The peat is clearly there too, subdued.
Sean points to the the lack of sweetness, and the little earthy bit. Simon picks up on the earthy too that comes in and out.
Simon tastes a salty lemon, like what you have after a tequila shot. We agree. Trevor really gets the lemon on the finish.
Water makes a little earthier, tames the salt a bit, but not a whole lot of a difference.
Trevor can sniff a little floral now.
Scott says it tastes like ocean soaked clothes wrung into a glass.
We get a syrupy sweetness now, but it's brief and light.
This is Kyle's pick, so he starts us off with a 70. The salt is a little overpowering, like an overseasoned steak, but regardless Kyle enjoys this quite a bit. Simon is a fan of lemon. The full salty lemon flavors here with the background peat is a win for him. That said he's had Lagavulin 8, and for the same price it does everything Kilkerran 12 does, but better, and then some. So it's overshadowed. He goes 72. This one is too salty for Trevor, yet enjoyable. His in-laws would love. 64. Scott matches that. He was thinking 60-62 but this has a nice full mouthfeel to it, so 64 it is. Sean goes 68. We average out at 67.6 tonight.
Our average review is 72.57.
At $94 in Ontario it's not a scotch we would recommend unless you're looking for a salt bomb with some nice nuance to it. Unlikely that you will see this on our shelves anytime soon.
Cheers!
The S&P Crew.
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