Kilchoman Single Cask 332/2006 for Whisky Live Paris 2010

Cask No.: 332/2006

Cask type: 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Butt

Date Filled: 22.11.2006

Date Bottled: 16.8.2010

Age: 3 yo

Strength: 61,9 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Market: France

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For the French whisky fair Whisky Live, which took place in Paris from 25 to 27 September 2010, an exclusive Kilchoman single cask – a nearly 4-year-old 1st Fill Oloroso Sherry Butt – was also bottled. This was only the third Kilchoman single cask release for France.

The Oloroso Sherry Butt 332/2006 was a so-called “split cask”. I.e. the present bottling was only filled with a part of the contents, the other part was bottled on the same day for The German Tasting Tour 2010. Especially in the early Kilchoman days, where the individual markets did not yet require such high bottle numbers, it was a frequent procedure to divide the contents of the large 500 litre sherry butts between two or three bottlings.

What is interesting is that both bottlings indicate different alcohol contents, 61,9 % here and 61.0 % for the German Tasting Tour Release. This is obviously a mistake.

In addition, the text on the back of the box, which was used for all of Kilchoman’s numerous 3-year-old single cask bourbon bottlings in 2010, has been changed to reflect the type of cask, i.e. instead of ‘aged for three years in a fresh bourbon barrel’ it now says ‘aged for three years in a fresh sherry butt’. The flavour description printed also on the backlabel of the bottle, however, remained unchanged! A sherry butt that tastes like a bourbon barrel, hmm…

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