While trying to focus on all kinds of townships and locations on the Isle of Arran, Lagg have taken to the smallest named settlements they could find, or so it seems. Corriecravie is a couple of minutes west of the distillery, but isn’t more than a handful of houses and a swing set.

The previous edition, Kilmory, is even smaller. Although, there is a campsite there so that might count for something.

Anyway, this second regularly available release is a sherry cask finish, whereas the first edition was fully bourbon cask matured. The other difference is that this one was released at 55% ABV instead of the former 46%. With this still being some three years old, I’m not expecting a lot of depth going in, but I do expect it to be a very drinkable whisky. I was rather thrilled with the first release.

Sniff:
Even with this being only three years old, there’s some full on sherry happening on the nose. Dried fruits with a slightly bitter note of almonds on top of the dates and prunes. Strangely, I’m not picking up a lot of smoky notes, which should be there. There is a bit of a green and ever so slightly acidic note here too.

Sip:
For a 55% whisky at only 3 years old it’s not overly intense to begin with. However, after a couple of seconds there’s quite a lot of white pepper and sawdust coming up. There’s some dryness that holds the middle between oak, barley, dried fruits and almonds.

Swallow:
The finish is slightly flat, with a more one-dimensional sherry flavor. It’s still obviously sherry, nothing really stands out except for that peppery dryness and oak.

It’s a tad more complex than I anticipated, although the sherry really pushes the peaty notes back. I really had to remind myself that this was a peated whisky, just to not forgot about that.

So it is a rather tasty dram that, for a three year old, is nothing to scoff at. It shows promise, but I do think they pushed the sherry a little bit too far.

85/100