58,2°
Distillery : Celtic Whisky Distillerie - France
1st Fill Bourbon Barrel
Independent Bottling
By La Maison du Whisky
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2023
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated around 50 ppm
Last expression in this new series inaugurated by Ex-Libris, the highly selective range launched by La Maison du Whisky in 2021, this Kornog has been aged for 12 years in a first-fill Bourbon cask. Its name comes from a collection of poems by Yvon Le Men. The number of bottles produced remains a mystery.
Let's Taste It :
The nose is more iodine-based, fairly full-bodied, with a nice breadth, and it moves towards cereals, with cracked wheat, porridge, vanilla and white fruits. Peat in the background, rather discreet but pleasantly subtle. Pastry cream, sea air and a touch of salt. On the palate, the salt takes on greater importance, coating the fruits and with milk chocolate. The spices are powerful. Slightly acidic candy, it's a little syrupy. Successful finish, suitably long, woody, coffee, slightly bitter cocoa, muddy earth. Chestnut cream, pan-fried mushrooms. Parsley.
In Short,
It's obviously more mature and well-balanced, but I preferred the youngest of the three, which showed a lot of character and a purer expression of the distillate. Especially as the difference isn't huge, only 4 years between the three. This one goes off a bit in all directions, with pastry elements, sweets, cereals, iodine and, of course, peat. I don't find it the most interesting. And the price is the highest, as if it were a 25 year old, it's really disproportionate.
Score : 88
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Zaho de Sagazan - Dis-moi que tu m'aimes
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