Review #17: Kilchoman 2007/2013 "Loch Gorm", OB, 46%, 10000 bottles

let's do one more

The smoke seems even drier, ashier than in #16, but it has the sherry notes to fall back on. The sherry seems like the tobacco/flinty/mossy kind, with only a little stewed fruit, but maybe that's the smoke influence. Some bacon and wood glue, too. The peat still dominates.

On the palate I get a mouthful of ash, like all that stuff (esp. moss, wool) has been left on a barbecue for a few weeks. Some vanilla fruit sweetness comes in at the finish, but then the cinders take over again. I didn't realize that ash could persist like this.

I like the other one better.

score: 82