The machine oil description on the Kilmory is spot on, both on the nose and palate. Quite unique and very enjoyable. Need to get a bottle of the Corriecravie now. 👍🙂
Love the Lagg. Went to a local whisky festival late last year with the Mrs and Lagg made our top 3 among the 20 odd whiskies we tried. We enjoyed it so much we bought the Kilmory afterwards. Robust flavours abound and that oily/industrial note is on the money.
Thanks for reviewing / comparing theese whiskies, Geoff. Between the 2 an easy win for me (someting tells me that's no surprise). I've heared people raving about these, which I do not. For the Kilmory counts it's good stuff, but not 'raveable' and that might be due the young age. I leave the Corriecravie for others.... Slàinte mhath
Between the Laggards and the Hindmosts the latter has the edge, while the former is interesting and rather gyn-like. I guess that proves that it's not all about timing. Love your work
Finally managed to watch it. The long pause really had me....😂 Great whiskys both! I absolutely agree. I opened the Kilmory and really loved it! Thank you for the recommendation my friend! I would be hard pressed to choose a favorite though. Luckily I don't need to 😅 Thank you for the review, excellent as always! Cheers Geoff 🥃🥃
Hey, Geoff! Very nice review and brilliant idea to put a video about both Kilmory and Corriecravie expressions. So far I've tasted the Kilmory and my thoughts and feelings about it pretty much mirror yours. Very competent, very well made whisky! What it lacks in complexity it compensates with character in spades! Nice price/quality ratio too. I'm a fan of Arran whisky and am very glad that Lagg started with such confidence and high quality. I've also got a bottle of Corriecravie in the stash waiting its turn to be tasted :) Cheers!
Fun as always. I have only tried samples. Good, but did not seem enough to bring home a bottle. Maybe I was unfair. You pulled some excellent notes. Cheers!
Well they'll be divisive. I bought mine off the back of trying samples. They're very rough and young. I expect a lot of people won't enjoy them as much as I do, which is absolutely understandable. Cheers Jon! 🥃
Nice review again. Love the jokes also😂. Agree with you that they are unique, and personally i liked the Kilmory a little bit more than the Corrykilcravie😊. I totally get the machine oil, and it makes it interesting.
Thanks for the review. I haven't seen lagg in any shop yet so I haven't tried it yet. Bottle design is quite unique. Hope I will get my hands on any of them soon.
Love the humour, that pause was excellent. 🤣Both of these are available here in NZ, but I haven't tried them yet. I'm not sure whether I want to try this release or wait a couple of years. I've seen a few reviews on Lagg, and most are saying it is good but young. I think at around the 5-6-year mark it will be getting up there with Ardnamurchan. Definitely a distillery to watch. Cheers!
Funnily enough I bought a 20cl Lagg Peated Spirit yesterday at 63.5%! Must be so young they cant call it Whisky. Liquid almost clear. Will taste it when feeling brave!
Thanks for this review, I’ve had my eye on Lagg for a couple of years now, they’re a bit pricey for me for their age personally but if I can save up a little I’ll definitely pick them up, cheers! 🥃
Hi Geoff, really nice comparison video. With a big score, seems you are into Lagg for real. Maybe except for the devices used to seal the bottles Think I will put them on my watch list.
I have found out that my taste is quite similar to yours especially regarding peaty whiskies, so I'm feeling quite confident in that sense. I actually prefer my peaters younger and coarser. But still I'm a little cautious with this one because 3 years is quite a low number even for me, and how expensive it is despite the young age: around USD $100. (whisky in general is very expensive where I live) I'm really keen on trying out the Kilmory, but the lack of an opportunity to try out a dram before buying a bottle makes me apprehensive.
Ah that's a bit of a conundrum. Yeah I'd definitely try to sample it (at a bar, maybe?) before dishing out a ful $100 on it. I love it but I don't think I'd pay that much for it. For reference, it was about USD $60 here. I think you're right to be apprehensive. Cheers. 🥃
Nicely saturated and tight review. The whole range! For once I get to feel ahead of you on something, having started my relationship with Kilmory a few weeks ago, proving to myself I can make independent decisions and arrive at unblemished feelings about a whisky without influencer influence, which I needed. But my feeling is similar to yours about the strange young and unadorned Kilmory character. Mainly differs from most other barely legals in that I want to return to it. And now I feel influenced into wanting the Corriecravie. Throwing out some reviews I wouldn't mind seeing: Port Askaig 8 and a Torabhaig?
Great minds think alike, it seems! 😉 I had a bottle of Torabhaig and it got finished at a tasting before I could review it, sadly. I'll definitely repurchase it if I can find it again. Sadly it's not yet sold here in Taiwan. The Askaig 8... sounds fun! 🥃
Nice review Geoff, thanks. Prior to watching your review I took advantage of a 25% discount and picked up a pair of the Corriecrsvie for C$75 each (US$55). I opted for the Corriecravie based on Serge's notes. Although not unfavourable he found notes of "ash" in his review of the Kilmory: "You'd almost believe, at times, that you've actually had some ashes in your mouth. Or licked an ashtray very early in the morning, in Ibiza (what??)". Unfortunately that put me in mind of a BenRiach 'Birnie Moss' that I had a few years ago. It was a very young whisky with a very dry, ashy finish that was overpowering and unpleasant. Licking an ashtray in Edmonton is considerably worse! Anyway, your review of the Kilmory has me second guessing about whether I should also pick up a Kilmorey.
I just had the Corriecravie a few weeks ago and agree 100% with your review: intense, industrial, but great complexity. Reminded me of a young cask-strength Benromach mixed with Ardnamurchan (because of the olive and briny note). I had a hard time finishing the dram, but I'm looking forward to trying this when a 10-year expression is available in a few years -- it's quality liquid.
Would be interesting to see a blind tasting of similarly presented expressions from several of the up-and-coming distilleries pushing their youthful stock. Curious to see how you'd rank them.
You know I love my Kilmory and I absolutely applaud Arran for daring to do just a bourbon cask which definitely works. I was apprehensive about the Corricravie due to the Oloroso effect but I tried it last week and damn son what a dram as well! Can't help but love and respect Arran and the whole team for the whiskies they're putting out from both distilleries. Great review Geoff, cheers 🥃
Yeah really bold to avoid any big sherry or STR for their first flagship bottling. Gotta love the confidence, and they pulled it off beautifully. Can't wait to see what a few more years does for this stuff. But YES, hats off to the Arran team! 🥃
Hello Geoff, i'm ashamed to say that i didnt had a Lagg so far. But they are on my List. 😅 Still... like many others. Thanks for sharing your Thoughts and Opinion about this Expression. Greetings from Germany 😎🤘
Wanted to recommend a quality drink, called POG juice (pineapple, orange, guava). If you're a fan of the old style of Arran10 with tropical flavors, before they sold out to a more trendy sherry influence, this is a good alternative, fruit basket notes jumped out the glass. They both have the pineapple, but then the sweetness is balanced by tart orange like the alcohol kick, and the guava holds it all together like the barley grain mid palate. The bottling I had was by Langer's and the Specs are hit and miss which read: gmo free, no high fructose corn syrup, from concentrate, 15% juice, 80% vitamin C, color added. Make sure to read the label closely that it is pog made from pineapple and not passion fruit. I'm sure craft homebrew juicers can create quite the full strength version. /s?
Finally,,,someone is giving attention to this new and promising distillery. I was Lucky enough to buy them all, including the three innaugural releases at 50%abv with their beautiful presentation boxes. Question to you Geoff,, how does this brand stand against , for example , ardbeg or laphroig?
Thanks for reviewing, Geoff. I haven't tasted the Corriecravie, and tbh after tasting the Kilmory, I'm definitely not in a hurry to do so. I honestly don't get the hype about the Kilmory (I call it hype, other people may choose not to) with its soapy, chemical off notes and no way near enough time in a cask to create some sort of balance. The Torabhaig Allt Gleann is a way better option for a young, peated malt imho. And it's not even close. I know, I'm the outlier on that Kilmory relesse, but definitely not a "new fancy toy", I'm gonna spend my money on. 😊
That's fair. For me it's a very industrial style of peat, and it's definitely got a love-it-or-hate-it kind of profile. Obviously I'm a big fan, but I can completely understand someone not agreeing with these flavours. Cheers! 🥃
To some degree there is "hype" around all new distilleries just because they are new. As far as I can tell there is no more fanfare for Lagg than many other new distilleries. The only one that really took off in a hurry was Ardnamurchan. Even before there was an Ardnamurchan whisky there was a mad rush to buy the new make spirit. There hasn't been anything like that for Lagg. I was even able to buy the Corrycravie for just under US$60, which, even though young, is virtually cask strength.
When I've heard a review mention "papery" or "cardboard" they tend to mean it's the youth coming through in a rather unpleasant way. Unless you love drinking paper.
There use to be a pour your own that was a 2nd fill sherry hogs head that was 63% abv that was amazing but yea lagg is the best I’m being a bit biased since I work here😂 but hey ho good video
Just saw these for the first time in Chicago. Not a fan of the prices for such a young spirit. I still want to give them a chance but they need to calm that price down.
When you give a value opinion, I wish you would state the price you paid, since prices vary wildly from place to place. A value in your region might not be so for those elsewhere. If you did state the price somewhere in the video and I happened to be zoned out at that moment, I apologize for the criticism.
I don't recall for this vid. in particular, but Geoff has begun to put such values in many of his vids in the last few months--often US$ for comparisons, sometimes others. He's very aware that Taiwan prices may not reflect prices in other markets. In my market malt prices can sometimes vary by surprisingly large amounts, and it's not always simply the case of "old" vs. "new" shipments/stock. In short, whisky pricing/value for whiskytubers is a can of worms, and we haven't even got into the relativity of individual perceptions of "value".
That pause was beautiful !!
Tried em both. Love em both!
Ah finally they are coming out!
The machine oil description on the Kilmory is spot on, both on the nose and palate. Quite unique and very enjoyable. Need to get a bottle of the
Corriecravie now. 👍🙂
I have both bottles myself and I am seriuosly thinking of buying some more for backups. Great stuff. Also love the jokes in this review :)
Love the Lagg. Went to a local whisky festival late last year with the Mrs and Lagg made our top 3 among the 20 odd whiskies we tried. We enjoyed it so much we bought the Kilmory afterwards. Robust flavours abound and that oily/industrial note is on the money.
Thanks for doing this review Geoff! It’s been very difficult to find reviews on these two and this is the first side-by-side I’ve seen.
“Don’t worry about it”
Sometimes having a vivid imagination is a real f’kin curse 😂
Fun video. Good work.
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Great review(s). It will be interesting to see how Lagg does in the coming years.
Thanks for reviewing / comparing theese whiskies, Geoff.
Between the 2 an easy win for me (someting tells me that's no surprise). I've heared people raving about these, which I do not.
For the Kilmory counts it's good stuff, but not 'raveable' and that might be due the young age. I leave the Corriecravie for others....
Slàinte mhath
Between the Laggards and the Hindmosts the latter has the edge, while the former is interesting and rather gyn-like. I guess that proves that it's not all about timing. Love your work
Thanks for watching! 🥃
Looks like Gentleman Geoff took a walk on the sild side -- fine review! I look forward to seeing how Lagg develops.
Thanks Geoff, just had the Corriecravie and found it enjoyable and delicious, though I won't be buying a bottle at local prices (around €60)
That's fair. They're definitely expensive for something that tastes so young. 🥃
Cracking review as always Geoff! Sampled a bit of Lagg but yet to dive in but that Kilmory sounds cracking. Cheers!
Yeah both of these are stunners as long as you can get past the youth. Hope to get your take on them someday. Cheers Jeff! 🥃
Thank you for the review on these bottles. I like the industrial note but will likely hold off for the time being on any purchases from Lagg.
That's fair. I'm sure they'll benefit from a few more years in the casks. 🥃
Finally managed to watch it. The long pause really had me....😂
Great whiskys both! I absolutely agree. I opened the Kilmory and really loved it!
Thank you for the recommendation my friend!
I would be hard pressed to choose a favorite though. Luckily I don't need to 😅
Thank you for the review, excellent as always!
Cheers Geoff 🥃🥃
Hey, Geoff! Very nice review and brilliant idea to put a video about both Kilmory and Corriecravie expressions.
So far I've tasted the Kilmory and my thoughts and feelings about it pretty much mirror yours. Very competent, very well made whisky! What it lacks in complexity it compensates with character in spades! Nice price/quality ratio too. I'm a fan of Arran whisky and am very glad that Lagg started with such confidence and high quality.
I've also got a bottle of Corriecravie in the stash waiting its turn to be tasted :)
Cheers!
Fun as always. I have only tried samples. Good, but did not seem enough to bring home a bottle. Maybe I was unfair. You pulled some excellent notes. Cheers!
Well they'll be divisive. I bought mine off the back of trying samples. They're very rough and young. I expect a lot of people won't enjoy them as much as I do, which is absolutely understandable. Cheers Jon! 🥃
Nice review again. Love the jokes also😂. Agree with you that they are unique, and personally i liked the Kilmory a little bit more than the Corrykilcravie😊. I totally get the machine oil, and it makes it interesting.
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Thanks for the review. I haven't seen lagg in any shop yet so I haven't tried it yet. Bottle design is quite unique. Hope I will get my hands on any of them soon.
You've nailed the review again ..young ..interesting ... I might go an 85 ...would like to sample the sherry cask ..thanks again Geoff
Lag behind!! 😂😅😅
Love the humour, that pause was excellent. 🤣Both of these are available here in NZ, but I haven't tried them yet. I'm not sure whether I want to try this release or wait a couple of years. I've seen a few reviews on Lagg, and most are saying it is good but young. I think at around the 5-6-year mark it will be getting up there with Ardnamurchan. Definitely a distillery to watch. Cheers!
Funnily enough I bought a 20cl Lagg Peated Spirit yesterday at 63.5%! Must be so young they cant call it Whisky. Liquid almost clear. Will taste it when feeling brave!
Thanks for this review, I’ve had my eye on Lagg for a couple of years now, they’re a bit pricey for me for their age personally but if I can save up a little I’ll definitely pick them up, cheers! 🥃
Going to the Isle of Arran later this summer. Hoping to visit both distilleries.
Awesome! I hear it's a hell of a place. Enjoy! 🥃
Hi Geoff, really nice comparison video.
With a big score, seems you are into Lagg for real. Maybe except for the devices used to seal the bottles
Think I will put them on my watch list.
I have found out that my taste is quite similar to yours especially regarding peaty whiskies, so I'm feeling quite confident in that sense. I actually prefer my peaters younger and coarser.
But still I'm a little cautious with this one because 3 years is quite a low number even for me, and how expensive it is despite the young age: around USD $100. (whisky in general is very expensive where I live) I'm really keen on trying out the Kilmory, but the lack of an opportunity to try out a dram before buying a bottle makes me apprehensive.
Ah that's a bit of a conundrum. Yeah I'd definitely try to sample it (at a bar, maybe?) before dishing out a ful $100 on it. I love it but I don't think I'd pay that much for it. For reference, it was about USD $60 here. I think you're right to be apprehensive. Cheers. 🥃
Nicely saturated and tight review. The whole range!
For once I get to feel ahead of you on something, having started my relationship with Kilmory a few weeks ago, proving to myself I can make independent decisions and arrive at unblemished feelings about a whisky without influencer influence, which I needed.
But my feeling is similar to yours about the strange young and unadorned Kilmory character. Mainly differs from most other barely legals in that I want to return to it.
And now I feel influenced into wanting the Corriecravie.
Throwing out some reviews I wouldn't mind seeing: Port Askaig 8 and a Torabhaig?
Great minds think alike, it seems! 😉
I had a bottle of Torabhaig and it got finished at a tasting before I could review it, sadly. I'll definitely repurchase it if I can find it again. Sadly it's not yet sold here in Taiwan. The Askaig 8... sounds fun! 🥃
Nice review Geoff, thanks. Prior to watching your review I took advantage of a 25% discount and picked up a pair of the Corriecrsvie for C$75 each (US$55). I opted for the Corriecravie based on Serge's notes. Although not unfavourable he found notes of "ash" in his review of the Kilmory: "You'd almost believe, at times, that you've actually had some ashes in your mouth. Or licked an ashtray very early in the morning, in Ibiza (what??)". Unfortunately that put me in mind of a BenRiach 'Birnie Moss' that I had a few years ago. It was a very young whisky with a very dry, ashy finish that was overpowering and unpleasant. Licking an ashtray in Edmonton is considerably worse!
Anyway, your review of the Kilmory has me second guessing about whether I should also pick up a Kilmorey.
I just had the Corriecravie a few weeks ago and agree 100% with your review: intense, industrial, but great complexity. Reminded me of a young cask-strength Benromach mixed with Ardnamurchan (because of the olive and briny note). I had a hard time finishing the dram, but I'm looking forward to trying this when a 10-year expression is available in a few years -- it's quality liquid.
Would be interesting to see a blind tasting of similarly presented expressions from several of the up-and-coming distilleries pushing their youthful stock. Curious to see how you'd rank them.
You know I love my Kilmory and I absolutely applaud Arran for daring to do just a bourbon cask which definitely works. I was apprehensive about the Corricravie due to the Oloroso effect but I tried it last week and damn son what a dram as well! Can't help but love and respect Arran and the whole team for the whiskies they're putting out from both distilleries. Great review Geoff, cheers 🥃
Yeah really bold to avoid any big sherry or STR for their first flagship bottling. Gotta love the confidence, and they pulled it off beautifully. Can't wait to see what a few more years does for this stuff. But YES, hats off to the Arran team! 🥃
I tasted both, felt so young. Waiting for long matured ones.
Totally understandable. They're definitely very young. 🥃
Hello Geoff,
i'm ashamed to say that i didnt had a Lagg so far. But they are on my List. 😅
Still... like many others.
Thanks for sharing your Thoughts and Opinion about this Expression.
Greetings from Germany 😎🤘
They're a great brand, albeit very young. I hope you can try a sample before you purchase them, as they won't be for everyone. Cheers, buddy. 🥃
Wanted to recommend a quality drink, called POG juice (pineapple, orange, guava). If you're a fan of the old style of Arran10 with tropical flavors, before they sold out to a more trendy sherry influence, this is a good alternative, fruit basket notes jumped out the glass. They both have the pineapple, but then the sweetness is balanced by tart orange like the alcohol kick, and the guava holds it all together like the barley grain mid palate. The bottling I had was by Langer's and the Specs are hit and miss which read: gmo free, no high fructose corn syrup, from concentrate, 15% juice, 80% vitamin C, color added. Make sure to read the label closely that it is pog made from pineapple and not passion fruit. I'm sure craft homebrew juicers can create quite the full strength version. /s?
In not sure about these. id have to try them, i guess. Great review my friend.
They're young and rough, so perhaps try to get your hands on a sample first? Cheers and thanks for watching! 🥃
2024 just hit here in Chicagoland
Finally,,,someone is giving attention to this new and promising distillery. I was Lucky enough to buy them all, including the three innaugural releases at 50%abv with their beautiful presentation boxes. Question to you Geoff,, how does this brand stand against , for example , ardbeg or laphroig?
A bit surprised to see 88 for such a young whisky!
Thanks for reviewing, Geoff.
I haven't tasted the Corriecravie, and tbh after tasting the Kilmory, I'm definitely not in a hurry to do so.
I honestly don't get the hype about the Kilmory (I call it hype, other people may choose not to) with its soapy, chemical off notes and no way near enough time in a cask to create some sort of balance.
The Torabhaig Allt Gleann is a way better option for a young, peated malt imho. And it's not even close.
I know, I'm the outlier on that Kilmory relesse, but definitely not a "new fancy toy", I'm gonna spend my money on. 😊
That's fair. For me it's a very industrial style of peat, and it's definitely got a love-it-or-hate-it kind of profile. Obviously I'm a big fan, but I can completely understand someone not agreeing with these flavours. Cheers! 🥃
To some degree there is "hype" around all new distilleries just because they are new. As far as I can tell there is no more fanfare for Lagg than many other new distilleries. The only one that really took off in a hurry was Ardnamurchan. Even before there was an Ardnamurchan whisky there was a mad rush to buy the new make spirit. There hasn't been anything like that for Lagg. I was even able to buy the Corrycravie for just under US$60, which, even though young, is virtually cask strength.
I disparately want to try Lagg but it is not available in my market. Also, I couldn't when I was in London last year :(
This is the kind of Wishky I never had a chance to taste....Not at all available in my country
I would love to hear your opinion on the Wolfburn Distillery.
Please try the Arran Remnant Renegade it is awesome! cheers!
Never heard the “papery” description. Can you expound on this ? Any other examples ?
When I've heard a review mention "papery" or "cardboard" they tend to mean it's the youth coming through in a rather unpleasant way.
Unless you love drinking paper.
Like hitting a 6 in the backyard against your 10yo nephew - no slagging the Lagg…
There use to be a pour your own that was a 2nd fill sherry hogs head that was 63% abv that was amazing but yea lagg is the best I’m being a bit biased since I work here😂 but hey ho good video
Nice! Since we're friends now can I have a cask? 🥃😉
@@Gwhisky 😂not on that side of the whiskey unfortunately only a waiter in ther cafe
Science fiction like, "Horton Hears A Who," is hard to understand...
Too cerebral... 😉
Beware of books written by doctors LOL
I LOL'd 😂
Good book Geoff by the way 🙄
Plot was too complicated. Couldn't follow. 😉🥃
@@Gwhisky 🤣
@@Gwhisky Try reading the Reader's Digest condensed version.
Just saw these for the first time in Chicago. Not a fan of the prices for such a young spirit. I still want to give them a chance but they need to calm that price down.
You might want to see the doctor about those mini-strokes. Crave-killy isn't really that hard to say.
VERY sensitive to an uncleansed palate. I love the kilmorey but if I drink another older whiskey first it tastes industrial.
Yeah I quite like those industrial notes but they aren't for everyone. Cheers! 🥃
When you give a value opinion, I wish you would state the price you paid, since prices vary wildly from place to place. A value in your region might not be so for those elsewhere. If you did state the price somewhere in the video and I happened to be zoned out at that moment, I apologize for the criticism.
I don't recall for this vid. in particular, but Geoff has begun to put such values in many of his vids in the last few months--often US$ for comparisons, sometimes others. He's very aware that Taiwan prices may not reflect prices in other markets.
In my market malt prices can sometimes vary by surprisingly large amounts, and it's not always simply the case of "old" vs. "new" shipments/stock. In short, whisky pricing/value for whiskytubers is a can of worms, and we haven't even got into the relativity of individual perceptions of "value".
It's time to rebrand your channel Geoff?
Gcorewhisky sounds great to me! 😂
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Really want this but it seems hard to get in Sweden
Corriecravie sounds like someone pining for their weekly dose of Coronation Street.🤔