Kilkerran 8 Years Old Sherry Cask Strength Batch #10 is the 2024 edition of Glengyle’s sherried single malt, bottled at a cask strength of 57.4%. The whisky has been fully matured in Oloroso sherry casks, adding delicious notes of leather-bound books, sticky toffee pudding, thick date syrup, blackcurrants, cherries, redcurrants, ginger and chocolate oranges to the distillery’s trademark smoky character. The Glengyle distillery in Campbeltown reopened in 2004 after having been closed since 1925. Since Loch Lomond Distillers took over the Glengyle brand in the meantime, the distillery’s single malt is now bottled under the name Kilkerran.
About Kilkerran
The single malt whisky brand produced at Campbeltown’s Glengyle distillery.
Kilkerran single malt was born from the rebirth of Glengyle distillery in 2004. The Campbeltown distillery, which had closed in 1925, was reopened after the turn of the century by J&A Mitchell. However, the Glengyle brand name had been previously sold to Bloch Bros, leaving the distillery’s new owners to consider an alternative name for its single malt. Kilkerran – Cille Chiarain in Gaelic – is the original name of Campbeltown.
Lightly peated and non-chill-filtered, the 12-year-old is matured 70% in ex-Bourbon casks and 30% in ex-Sherry casks. The result is a far cry from the traditional heavy malt distilled at Glengyle during the Victorian era.
The annual ‘Work-in-Progress’ releases were matured either in ex-Bourbon or ex-Sherry and were released in quantities of between nine and 18,000 bottles.
Glengyle distillery was founded by William Mitchell in 1872, and it remained in family ownership until 1919. After it was closed by West Highland Malt Distilleries in 1925 the distillery and remaining stocks were acquired by Bloch Bros, which had also bought Glen Scotia.
The distillery was silent for three-quarters of a century, but was purchased by J&A Mitchell in 2000. Four years later Glengyle was reopened, and its first Kilkerran single malt released in 2009 as a 5-year-old ‘Work-in-Progress’ expression. Annual work in progress releases continued thereafter until 2015.
