Kilchoman Single Cask 362/2006 for Isetan

Cask No.: 362/2006

Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 23.11.2006

Date Bottled: 25.11.2009

Age: 3 yo

Strength: 61,6 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Barcode: 4 560149 790935

Market: Japan

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The Japanese department stores’ chain Isetan, which has its headquarters in Shinjuku, Tokyo and is active in Southeast Asia as well as Japan, has released Kilchoman single cask bottlings several times.

The bottling of a bourbon barrel just three years old listed here was the very first Kilchoman single cask release for Japan and only the second worldwide.

The bottle still has a banderole around the cork, as was customary for single cask releases from Kilchoman’s early days until the end of March 2010. It was not until May 2010 that bottles bottled by hand at Kilchoman were also fitted with a metal capsule. The label still features the slightly darker blue of the Kilchoman Inaugural Release from September 2009. From the Autumn 2009 Release in November 2009, all Kilchoman bottlings had a royal blue label for the next two years. Only nine early single cask bottlings, such as the one listed here, still used the old dark blue labels.

The cask type is indicated on the handwritten label as ‘Barrel’, which of course refers to an ex-bourbon barrel.

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