Kilchoman Champagne Single Cask Finish 1104/2016 for Memories of Scotland 2
In 2019, Japanese bars Authentic Bar Brownie, Public Bar Islands, Bar Laddie, Ginza Zenith, Bar Campbelltoun Loch, Bar Rosebank and Bar Shamrock jointly released a Kilchoman single cask release under the name Memories of Scotland.
Now, with some different participants, Memories of Scotland 2 has been released. This time, seven representatives from three Japanese whisky bars and three Japanese whisky shops travelled to Scotland, where they spent a few days together in a cottage on Islay, visited the Kilchoman distillery and finally selected a cask of Kilchoman whisky. The participants included Noboyuki Nakamura and Junko Fujita, owners of Bar Campbelltoun Loch in Tokyo, Mr Maekawa from Bar Shamrock in Tokyo, Mr Ishiguro from Bar Sutherland in Tokyo, Takuhei Kimura from Liquor Land Kimura in Hiroshima, Hiroshi Yanagawa, founder and CEO of KomaSpi Co., Ltd., a whisky importer and whisky shop in Tokyo, and Tsuyoshi Kitakaji from the importer and spirits shop Rudder Ltd.
For the new bottling, a nearly eight-year-old Kilchoman whisky was selected, which had undergone two years of finishing in Blanc de Blancs casks from Champagne.
In the summer of 2022, Kilchoman had for the first time purchased 40 Blanc de Blancs casks from the Champagne region and used a dozen of them to finish Bourbon Barrels from 2016 (all information can be found here: Taste Guide Blanc de Blancs Champagne Cask). Eight of these casks were then released worldwide in 2023 after an average finishing period of just under a year.
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The Memories of Scotland 2 bottling now has twice the finishing period of 24 months. As with a recent bottling in Germany, this leads us to expect a significantly stronger Blanc de Blancs wine flavour than in previous bottlings. It is also exciting that this bottling is being labelled ‘Champagne Single Cask Finish’ for the first time, something Kilchoman had previously avoided for legal reasons with its other Blanc de Blancs bottlings.
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Cask No.: 1104/2016
Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel, Blanc de Blancs Cask Finish
Date Filled: 26.11.2016
Date Decanted: 6.9.2022
Date Bottled: 1.9.2024
Age: 7 yo
Finishing Period: 24 months
Strength: 56,6 % abv
Level of Phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm
Bottle volume: 0,7 l
Market: Japan
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