Kilkerran WIP VII Bourbon Cask Distillery: Glengyle (Campbeltown) Distilled: approx. 2004 Bottled: 2015 (Age: approx. 11 years) Edition: 6000 bottles Maturation: Bourbon Wood Alcohol: 54.1% Expectation: For the seventh and last time the Glengyle Distillery will be releasing a Kilkerran under the name "Work In Progress", next year the first "official" Kilkerran with 12 years maturity will appear. The Glengyle Distillery was reactivated in 2004 after about 80 years of Sleeping Beauty sleep. Back then, it was not so much about the whisky boom that was coming up, more about wanting to deprive Campbeltown of the status of a whisky region and making a third distillery quickly. Long-time Springbank manager Frank McHardy supervised the construction of the cult figure at Springbank. From the outset, it was planned to fill the single malt (which may not be called Glengyle because of a protected brand name), only at 12 years to fill. For the meantime, there were quasi samples under the name "Work in Progress", separated for three years in Bourbon - and Sherrycaskreifung, with the Bourbon Wood to be discussed here for the first time a bottling in cask strength. Last year, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary, I was already able to taste a strong filling and was quite enthusiastic. In the run-up to the publication of this bottling slight hype conditions in common whisky forums, etc. were observed, let's see if it was justified ... Eye: medium golden yellow Nose: apples, pears, vanilla, caramel, green banana, honeydew melon, fruit of punch or rum pot, orange gum (chilled for about 4 minutes ...), some smoke, alcoholic note well integrated, Taste: oak, smoky notes, orange and orange peel, Uncle Dittmeyer's juice cartons of yesteryear, something about the date ..., above all lies an unobtrusive smoke. Finish: medium in length, the oak and smoke are remembered for a long time ... Conclusion: very nice bottling, so similar was the barrel from last year in Campbeltown. If the first official bottling will be published next year, then we can be happy, a nice thing is that, luckily they have reopened this distillery. 89 points