Kilchoman PX Sherry Cask Matured

Seems more mature than the Fino or Cognac expressions but also somehow more boring. Quite nice and drinkable but more on the slightly above satisfactory rating (3+). Not my favorite cask in combination with Kilchoman and also a little too immature.

Got a dram of this one when I was visiting the distillery. Enjoyed it, but don't think I would buy a bottle of this.

What luxurious depth and complexity in Kilchoman PX Sherry Cask Matured, a single malt Scotch whisky that embodies the finest craftsmanship of the Kilchoman distillery. This exquisite whisky is carefully matured in Pedro Ximénez (PX) sherry casks, imparting rich, sweet and intensely aromatic notes that enhance Kilchoman’s traditional peaty profile Nose: The aroma is rich and inviting, with pronounced notes of dried fruit such as raisins and figs, complemented by hints of dark chocolate. A gentle smoky note runs through the scent, lending depth and complexity to the initial sweetness. On the palate, a lush mouthfeel unfolds with a complex array of flavours. Sweet sherry notes dominate, whilst ripe plums and a hint of cinnamon provide a harmonious balance. The characteristic Kilchoman peat smoke is present, lending the whisky a smoky note that rounds off the overall experience. Finish: The finish is long and warming, with lingering notes of sherry sweetness and oak. A subtle smoky flavour lingers, leaving a lasting impression of complexity and richness. Der Kilchoman PX Sherry Cask 2023 ist eine streng limitierte Abfüllung der Kilchoman Brennerei und geht mit der Edition 2023 bereits in die vierte Auflage. Die Lagerung erfolgte in ehemaligen PX Sherryfässern und diese bringen dem Kilchoman intensive Fruchtnoten von roten Früchten und Trockenobst. Im Geschmack zeigen sich Pflaumen und brauner Zucker sowie Lakritz, Tabak und Rauch. Der Kilchoman PX Sherry Cask 2023 hat eine Auflage von 23.000 Flaschen und wurde mit 50.0% vol. ungefärbt und ungefiltert abgefüllt.

Kilchoman limited edition release.

aroma: soft, rounded, smoke, nutmeg, honey, caramel taste: delicate, multi-layered, oak, smoke, vanilla, dried fruit Interesting sample! The smoky Kilchoman after sherry is a nice shot.

It's soft and sweet, with various red fruits, and in the background a charcoal peat full of soot and fuel oil. Cranberries, crunchy cherries, amarena, morello cherries, passion fruit, and even raspberry. The ballet of fruits continues on the palate, it's very jammy, hands in blackcurrant and blackberries, licorice, chocolate. Peat is a little more discreet. Beautiful spices, varied and rich, nutmeg, cumin, pepper. Black tea. Long, fleshy finish, a little on rare meat, with ashes and some mineral reflections. Coffee grounds. Blueberries. It's very rich in fruit, sweet but not too much, however, the peat is put aside a little. https://ilikesky2020.blogspot.com/2023/11/kilchoman-px-sherry-cask-matured-2023.html

Fire in the Gingerbread Town Gum Drop Factory Overall, a pleasant sipper and one that I enjoyed returning to a few times— occasionally more of the meaty side appeared, but generally it was on the sweeter end for Kilchoman.

I generally prefer dry sherry casks, so Loch Gorm is definitely a step up for me. But this one is also excellent, and thankfully not too sweet. Plus, the more pronounced sweetness is balanced by acidity, light saltiness, and a really intense smokiness.

Kilchoman PX Sherry Cask Matured 2023 Release SMSW 50%. 30ml sample at home June 2024. Dark golden. Aroma is musty wood and pink mice sweets, pink MiniMilk lollies, dried raspberry pieces. I find the aroma ‘milky’ and basic. A poor first impression that suggests less than ideal sherry casks having taken over the show. Time helps a little as a vague gammon note comes in. Body is lightly oily. Taste has a soft smoke, rusty, burnt orange peel. Lingering smoke builds. The pleasant Kilchoman distillate still comes through nicely on the palate and is dominant over the casks, thankfully. Really comes into its own given time, and the tasty spirit keeps shining through. The smoke just keeps building and lingering longer and longer. Overall a pretty good whisky on the palate but Loch Gorm is generally better and Sanaig bottlings can be too, so I’m not sure this is offering something unique enough. Modern PX casks can really work and I’m always interested in trying whiskies matured in them but I feel that in this case the whisky is sort of good in spite of the casks used. 3.5/84

Slightly underwhelming, just like the Madeira a few years back ( brown box ). Especially, when you came across a single cask PX matured Kilchoman before, and it was amazing, this does not come even close.

Kilchoman-style smoke, present but not overpowering, with the PX influence largely contained. The quality is undeniable, with no off-notes and very well balanced. However, the aromatics are somewhat limited - 08.08.2025

Unfortunately, lately Kilchoman has been saying far too often: 'you get what you can expect' instead of 'you get what you pay for'. You can tell it's five years on the tongue and (especially) in the finish, so even the very inviting nose can't take anything away from it. I think the average price of 90 euros in Germany is quite excessive.

Aroma: rounded, smooth - with very delicate campfire smoke, slightly cognac notes, wine-woody notes, prunes and dark chocolate. As it develops, the tones of sea salt and a rich palette of spices are revealed - cloves, cinnamon and others. 22 Taste: bright with sweet berries, dark chocolate with orange pieces and smoky smoke, as well as an unusual taste of grilled zucchini for a whisky. 21 Finish: long, smoky, continuing the sweet flavors and complementing them with subtle spices and delicate oak tannins. 22 Balance: 22 Total: 87

Quite pricy but anyway a cool whisky. The performance for 5 year old is very rich. The nose offers sweet paprika, black pepper, a tiny note of smoke. The palate hits you with peat, charcoal, gas, medium sweet and well balanced for 50% ABV. The finish is medium-long, ashy, some sultanas, raisins

If you like a lot of smoke, this is the right place for you. Good peat, tar, ash and tobacco notes. The smoke is paired with sweet notes and dark dried fruit. I can still smell vanilla and butter biscuits, as well as cherry yoghurt. Pepper is added to the taste and brings a lot of spice at the end. The finish is long, but has a slightly bitter walnut note at the end. The alcohol is well integrated and I can't find any off notes. For a 5-year-old whisky, it's quite complex and tasty.

Aroma good, taste ok too, finish unfortunately not my thing. [86 - 82 = good whisky -> get (second) bottle? Maybe...] the sample is actually enough for me, let's see what I can do with the bottle, because I don't really like the finish.

Unbalanced with a boring sweetness.

Nose: Sweet, vanilla, cherry, smoke, slightly mineral, spices, oak, malt, some dark dried fruit, some chocolate ••• Taste: Sweet, mineral smoke, cherry, chocolate, spices, some vanilla, oak ••• Finish: Medium length, sweet, slightly mineral smoke with chocolate, some oak and some cherry remain. A slightly bitter cherry peel comes after a while. ••• Conclusion: It starts off sweet and smoky on the nose. Cherries with vanilla sauce and slightly mineral campfire smoke come at the beginning. Spices that remind me of liquorice in places, oak and malt follow. I also get some dark dried fruit with a hint of chocolate. The taste also starts off sweet. A brief dryness spreads in the mouth. Mineral campfire smoke, cherries and chocolate come immediately after. Spices and a little vanilla are there afterwards. Oak follows and malt is added at the end. A lovely whisky. Varied and well balanced for 5 years. The alcohol is a great fit. I have no faults. Delicious. ••• 87

Aroma: cherries, peat, smoky, citrus, Taste: peat, campfire, vanilla, citrus Finish: peaty Rating: 3

Dark amber color. Oily structure.

Sometimes it's not enough to dress a teenager in a tailored suit. He'll still be a teenager. That's exactly the feeling I had with the Kilchoman PX Cask. On paper, it sounds like a sure thing: powerful Islay smoke meets a sweet Pedro Ximénez cask. A combination that would make you sit back, relax, and preemptively refill your glass. The nose starts off exactly the same way. I mentally tear open a fresh packet of raisins. Immediately, that rich sweetness wafts towards me. Behind it, a touch of umami – not exactly herbs, but more like the aroma that develops when soup vegetables are slowly simmered somewhere. Very subtle, but intriguing. Of course, the smoke is there too. After all, the whisky is called Kilchoman, not Kindergarten. The alcohol, however, remains unimpressed. It keeps popping up, reminding us that this whisky hasn't celebrated all that many birthdays yet. On the palate, what follows is exactly what I've almost come to expect from Kilchoman: sweetness. Lots of sweetness. Almost simultaneously, the alcohol and smoke follow. The smoke is surprisingly sweet and accompanied by thyme, fennel, and a hint of anise. It's quite enjoyable. There's only one thing this whisky doesn't do at all. It doesn't give the impression of a mature PX whisky. On the contrary. For a PX, it seems surprisingly wild. Almost impatient. As if the cask had been constantly saying, "Give me another two years!" – and Kilchoman had been replying, "No time, the distributor is already waiting." With each sip, the tannins take over more and more. Added to this are notes of hazelnut and Brazil nuts, as well as an increasingly pronounced impression that initially left me perplexed. Then the image came to me: an old wine cellar. Cool. Dusty. Slightly earthy. As if fine stone dust lay somewhere on old wooden beams. With the first sip, I found that interesting. With the third dram, I thought: I can lick rocks in the Taunus Mountains too. I don't need to buy PX whisky for that. Unfortunately, this impression only intensifies with each subsequent dram. The old wine cellar is slowly taking over. Towards the end, almost nothing but harsh alcohol, tannins, and that dusty, mineral aftertaste remain. Yes, the finish is long. Yes, the nutty notes are quite pleasant. But somehow, in the end, the whisky tastes as if it's been forgotten for a few weeks after opening. Open. In the back of the garage. Between the toolbox and the winter tires. And that's precisely the problem for me. I like Kilchoman. I even love the beach in front of the distillery. But this PX strikes me as if it simply hasn't been given the time it needed. The cask tries with all its might to tame the young, unruly spirit. The young, unruly spirit wins. Perhaps I'm doing Kilchoman an injustice. Perhaps a young distillery needs to release new bottlings more frequently than the big names on Islay for economic reasons. But that's exactly how this whisky tastes to me, unfortunately: not like a finished PX cask, but like a PX cask that could have aged for a few more years. Then I probably would have preferred to stay on the beach in Machir Bay. As it is, my thoughts are drawn back to the Andalusian beach where the PX cask originally came from. There, the wine apparently had more patience than the whisky later did.

https://whiskylovingpianist.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/whisky-show-2023-loose-ends/ From the horse’s mouth, this is a five-year-old Islay single malt that enjoyed full maturation in PX casks. It was released in mid-October 2023 [just gone]. C: The peat – 50ppm btw! – has integrated with the not-too-sweet sherry, making for a rather endearing PX-steered nose. A neat all-round package, I imagine I’d enjoy a bottle slowly over time.

Smell rather mild, unobtrusive, slightly earthy without alcohol. Smoke dominates over the sherry. Sweetness hits straight through and covers the entire mouth, nuttiness shyly emerges. The finish remains stable. Not overly complex but very pleasant to drink. Needs time

The combination of the smoke and sherry casks results in lots of liquorice notes which I enjoy a lot. There is a green grass-vegetal note which I don't usually get from a Kilchoman. Very oily mouthfeel. Finish is pretty short and here the (lack of) age shows. Enjoyable for sure, but at this price point it's unlikely I would pick a bottle up.

The nose is quite unspectacular, the palate is really good. 80 points.

terrible killed and overpowered by PX

ouch, that was a miss

Smoke and PX, I just love this. Excellent whisky and Basta!

B: 50%, ucf, nc, thick, balanced. 23 N: peat, herbal, vanilla, caramelized fruit, oak. 22 P: vanilla, cream, smoke, spice, oak. 22 F: vanilla, smoke, raisin, oak. Long. 22 Amazing dram