New on the German market: Kilchoman Blanc de Blancs Single Cask Finish 1103/2016 for Whiskyhort Oberhausen, Schlüter´s Geniessertreff & Flickenschild
The German whisky shop Whiskyhort in Oberhausen celebrated its 10th birthday a few days ago, Schlüter´s Geniessertreff in Wülfrath will soon be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the expansion to include a whisky shop, and Flickenschild in Itzehoe is even celebrating its 120th anniversary. Reason enough for a special Whisky3 bottling, loosely based on the motto ‘3 shops, 3 anniversaries, 1 whisky!’
The three owners decided to use the occasion for a joint individual cask bottling of a Kilchoman Blanc de Blancs Finish.
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.
The finishing period for the bottling of Whisky³ is now more than twice as long. The packaging states a finishing period of over two years, but the actual figure is 28 months. This leads us to expect a significantly stronger Blanc de Blancs wine flavour than in previous bottlings. We will publish a comparative tasting shortly.
The 232 bottles of the release are now available at all three Whisky³ shops for €99.90.
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Cask No.: 1103/2016
Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel, Blanc de Blancs Cask Finish
Date Filled: 26.11.2016
Date Decanted: 6.9.2022
Date Bottled: 8.1.2025
Age: 8 yo
Finishing Period: 28 months
Strength: 55,6 % abv
Level of Phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm
Number of bottles: 232
Bottle volume: 0,7 l
Bottle Code: 16/1103 8/1/25
Barcode: 5 060210 708382
Market: Germany
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