Kilchoman Total Wine Concierge Small Batch No. 2

Cask types: 70 % Bourbon / 5 % Oloroso Sherry / 25% Sauternes

Age: NAS

Date Bottled: 19.7.2022

Strength: 49,7 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 1.260 [recte: 1.275]

Bottle volume: 0,75 l

Bottle Code: SB 19/07/22 22/96

Barcode: 8 92032 04563 6

Market: USA

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Total Wine & More calls itself “America’s Wine Superstore”. Founded in 1991, the company is the largest independent supermarket chain for wine, spirits and beer with 46 superstores in 27 US states.

It is therefore no surprise that, in May 2021, the first exclusive Small Batch Release for an American retailer was bottled. Unlike the Small Batch Release No. 2 for Total Wine listed here – which was bottled a good year later – this one did not yet have its own name but was simply marketed as USA Small Batch No. 6; you will therefore search in vain for a bottling labelled Small Batch Release No. 1 for Total Wine.

With the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, launched in 2019, renamed ‘Triskele Casks’ in 2023 and discontinued at the end of 2023, Kilchoman showcased its experimental side. Each individual batch was created specifically for individual export markets and demonstrated the influence of different cask types on the maturation of Kilchoman whisky.

The basis of each bottling was an already finished Machir Bay vatting or Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting, i.e. a whisky with 46% alcohol strength, which had previously been matured for around 5 years mainly in bourbon casks and 5-15% in Oloroso sherry casks. This vatting was then married with an additional special cask.

For the “Small Batch No. 2 for Total Wine Concierge”, a Sauternes cask was added to the Machir Bay vatting. The proportions are given as 70% Bourbon, 5% Oloroso Sherry and 25% Sauternes.

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