Description
"Dark muscovado sugars mixed with orange peel, liquorice... and peat reek!!! Adorable delivery: thick corn oil is awash with molten muscovado. The smoke keeps a respectful distance, but is there with ever-thickening tannins; spices grow, the peat murmurs, the tannins throb quietly amid residual sugars... Quite stunningly lovely." (94 points. Superstar whiskies that give us all a reason to live) Jim Murray's Whiskey Bible 2017
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45% ABV. Legend has it that this unique Bourbon resulted from a malt shortage at the distillery. Faced with a waning supply of malted barley, these talented distillers grabbed some peated malt to finish the batch. The spirit was sampled a year later, and the results were so delicious that KCD decided to make a thing of it.
To be clear, this is not a classic Bourbon finished in a peated cask; it’s a Whiskey that conforms to the requirements for Bourbon, made with a percentage of peated malt. The malt Kings County use for this Whiskey was grown and kilned in Scotland and now represents 25% of the mash bill, alongside 75% New York State organic corn. So, it’s a hybrid Whiskey of the two traditions, flavourful and robust from having aged at least two years in new barrels, with a lightly smoky finish reminiscent of a Scottish Single Malt. While it’s superb sipping on its own, it also makes a killer Old Fashioned or smoky Manhattan (with apologies to the Rye purists)." - Bibendum
