Kilchoman Private Cask 07/200 for Middle Cut of Finland

Cask No.: 200/2007

Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 18.7.2007

Date Bottled: 28.7.2025

Age: 18 yo

Strength: 50,0 % abv

Level of phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 189

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Bottle Code: 07/200 28/07/25

Distribution: Private Cask (Finland)

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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.

However, some cask owners allowed their casks to mature for longer, and in 2024 and 2025 in particular, a number of 17- and 18-year-old private cask bottlings were released.
This is one of those bottlings. The cask owners, a group of Finnish whisky enthusiasts from Helsinki, had their cask bottled at the age of 18.

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