Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting selected by Spec´s

Cask types: Bourbon Barrels (85 %), Oloroso Sherry Casks (15 %)

Age: NAS

Date Bottled: 2022

Strength: 46,0 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,75 l

Number of bottles: 1200

Market: USA – Texas

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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 Texas liquor chain “Spec´s. Wine, Spirits & Finer Foods” was founded in 1962 and is now active at 180 locations exclusively in Texas. Spec’s has frequently released exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottlings and even its own Kilchoman Small Batch Release. They also participated in the Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting programme in 2022 with the bottling listed here, which contains 85% bourbon and 15% sherry casks. A total of 1,200 bottles were filled, ten times the usual MBCV minimum quantity.

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