Kilchoman Private Single Refill Bourbon Cask 130/2007 for Kolding Whiskylaug af 1999

Cask No.: 130/2007

Cask type: Refill Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 6.6.2007

Date Bottled: 25.8.2017 [recte: 7.8.2017]

Age: 10 yo

Strength: 55,0 %

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 246

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Market: Denmark

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The very active Danish whisky club Kolding Whiskylaug af 1999 (Kolding Whisky Guild of 1999) released Kilchoman single cask bottlings for its members a few times.

After two “normal” bottlings obtained via the Danish importer, which were released in 2011 and 2014, they had two of their own bourbon casks from the Kilchoman Private Cask Programme bottled in August 2017: the Refill Bourbon Barrel listed here and the 1st Fill Bourbon Barrel 102/2007. This gave the club members an excellent opportunity to compare the 10 years of maturation in the two cask types.

In 2006 and 2007, Kilchoman sold numerous casks to private individuals in order to obtain urgently needed capital for the distillery’s ongoing operations during the economically strained early years. These were almost exclusively 1st fill and 2nd fill bourbon barrels.
Later, they tried to buy back as many of these casks as possible, as the stocks of whisky from the first years had quickly become very scarce. This buy-back programme was only moderately successful, however, and most owners kept their casks and usually had them bottled after the original agreed storage period of 10 years. So there was a great wave of Kilchoman Private Cask bottlings in 2016 and 2017.