Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting selected by The Whisky Shop (2019 Edition: 95 / 5)

Vat No.: 5816

Cask types: Bourbon Barrels (95 %), Oloroso Sherry Casks (5 %)

Date Bottled: 17.7.2019

Age: NAS

Strength: 46,0 % abv

Level of Phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,75 l

Bottle Code: 17.07.19 19/72

GTIN: 8 92032 04312 0

Market: USA

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From 2018 to 2023, Kilchoman offered local retailers the opportunity to create customised bottlings of the distillery´s flagship whisky Machir Bay with the ‘Machir Bay Collaborative Vattings’.

Deviating from the normal cask composition of Machir Bay, which consists of 90% bourbon and 10% Oloroso sherry cask-matured whisky, retailers could choose between four different variants with slightly altered proportions for the Collaborative Vattings: 95% bourbon / 5% sherry, 92.5% bourbon / 7.5% sherry, 87.5% bourbon / 12.5% sherry or 85% bourbon / 15% sherry cask-matured whisky. As with the ‘normal’ Machir Bay bottlings, the alcohol content was 46%. The boxes and bottles in the usual Machir Bay design were labelled with an individual sticker from the retailer.

The Whisky Shop in San Francisco released several MBCV bottlings, following a 2018 release with 12.5% sherry content, the 2019 bottling listed here with 5% sherry, and finally another release with 12.5% sherry content in 2022.

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