Kilchoman 100% Islay [“unpeated”] Oloroso Sherry Single Cask 557/2012 for The Mid Atlantic

Cask No.: 557/2012

Cask type: Oloroso Sherry Hogshead

Date Filled: 23.8.2012

Date Bottled: 23.9.2021

Age: 9 yo

Strength: 55,8 % abv

Level of phenols in malted barley: 0 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,75 l

Number of bottles: 293

Market: USA

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With the sister casks 556/2012 and 557/2012, two “unpeated” 100% Islay Oloroso Sherry Single Cask releases for the Mid Atlantic Region, the so-called Mid Atlantic States on the East Coast of the USA, were announced for the end of 2021: in addition to the cask 557/2012 mentioned here, the cask 556/2012 was also bottled for Lee & Greg, a private whisky fishing group. But some bottles of the latter were also sold in liquor stores in the Mid Atlantic region. Announced for the end of 2021, the bottlings then appeared only in the 2nd half of 2022.

The whisky was made from unpeated malt, but since the receivers were not emptied and the pipes not flushed between the distilling processes, the whisky still has a slight peat smoke note. For this reason, Kilchoman always puts the word “unpeated” in inverted commas in these bottlings; in the USA, earlier releases were called “sligthly peated”. To avoid further confusion, the word “unpeated” was not even used in this case – at least that is the official version, but perhaps it was simply forgotten. This led to the point that the people in charge at ImpEx, who selected these casks on the basis of cask samples, were not even aware of this fact and only reacted very surprised when I pointed it out to them…

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