Kilchoman 10 yo 2013/2023 '100% Islay' (55.5%, OB for Kensington Wine Market, cask #27, bourbon barrel, 243 bottles)
Colour: straw. Nose: very maritime at first, with strong impressions of rock pools, beach sand, wet kelp and shellfish broth. But there's also a bone-dry ashy note, along with oily sheep wool, wet plaster, puffer smoke and mineral salts. Extremely precise and sharp! With water: an almost acrid, brittle smokiness, wood ashes and freshly starched linens. More impressions of seawater, wet plaster, limestone and a tiny peeling of grapefruit skin. Mouth: rather herbal and oily up front, lots of ashy and lemon peat smoke, tar, whelks, cornichons in brine and mercurochrome. Pristine and very chiselled once again. With water: smoked olive oil, lemon barley water, sardines in oil, camphor, pure peat smoke and some TCP. Finish: long, salty, tarry, rather a lot of bacon rind and pork scratching and some preserved lemons in brine. Comments: amazing precision and purity, and another one that seems to tread a very fine line between seashore and farmyard, no doubt a whisky that would have Serge reaching for his beloved 'millimetric' descriptor... 
SGP: 367 - 88 points. 

Kilchoman 11 yo 2011/2023 (54.5%, OB for The Whisky Show, cask #771, bourbon barrel)
Colour: bright straw. Nose: similarly focussed on maritime qualities, wet pebbles, rock pool, mineral salts, coastal flowers and drying seaweed. Also some charmingly bright lemony notes, I'm overall getting the same feeling of precision, purity and focus that the 2013 had. With water: funnily enough, I find curry leaf now, but also more seashore notes, briny and citric impression and this familiar farmyard note that goes really towards sheep wool and Barbour grease. Mouth: extremely ashy, nervous, lemony, full of pure, sharp peat smoke, bonfire embers, pure tar extracts, hessian and cod liver oil. A few glimmers of softer, citrus fruit notes behind all that. With water: pure, bone dry, highly mineral, chiselled and full of raw cereals, smoked oats, ales and camphor. Finish: long, salty, drying, tarry and smoky. Comments: we're so very close to the excellent 2013, is this kind of dry, highly chiselled, pure profile a Kilchoman distillery character that's here to stay now? 
SGP: 467 - 88 points.