Kilchoman Private Cask Bottling 37/2007

Cask No.: 37/2007

Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 29.1.2007

Date Bottled: 1.2.2019

Age: 12 yo

Strength: 55,3 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 244

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Distribution: Private Cask

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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.

This is one of those bottlings. As was often the case, the cask owner or owners who had the whisky bottled after 12 years did not want to be named on the bottles.

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