Kilchoman Private Single Cask 13/2006 for Whiskyfreunde Essenheim

Cask No: 13/2006

Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 29.3.2006

Date Bottled: 25.1.2019

Age: 12 years

Strength: 55,7 % abv

Level of phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 228

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Distribution: Private Cask (Germany)

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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.

Whiskyfreunde Essenheim from Rhineland-Palatinate had their private cask bottled not after the usual 10 years, but almost 3 years later. It was therefore one of the oldest Kilchoman single cask bottlings at the time of its release.

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