Kilchoman Private Single Cask 159/2006 bottled in memory of Ingvar
Cask No.: 159/2006
Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel
Date Filled: 26.7.2006
Date Bottled: 25.6.2022
Age: 15 yo
Strength: 49,7 % abv
Phenol level: 50 ppm
Number of bottles: 220
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.
The cask mentioned here was bottled, probably by the heirs of the original owner, when it was just under 16 years old, making it one of the oldest Kilchoman releases at the time of bottling.