Kilchoman Private Single Cask 69/2007 for Max & Julia

Cask No.: 69/2007

Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 7.3.2007

Date Bottled: 25.9.2020

Age: 13 yo

Strength: 55,5 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 215

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Distribution: Private Cask (The Netherlands)

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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.

Max and Julia from the Netherlands did not have their cask bottled until the end of 2020, when it was thirteen and a half years old. This made it the oldest Kilchoman Private Cask available at the time of bottling. It was distributed via the Dutch wine and spirits shop Best of Wines / Best of Whiskies at a price of 160 euros.

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