Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting selected by Wesley Wesseling

Vat No.: 6294

Cask types: Bourbon Barrels (87,5 %), Oloroso Sherry Casks (12,5 %)

Age: NAS

Date Bottled: 9.7.2021

Strength: 46,0 % abv

Level of phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Number of bottles: 120

Bottle code: MCV 09.07.21 20/165

GTIN: 5 060210 700522

Market: The Netherlands

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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.

Following the release in March 2021 of an MBCV bottling with 85% bourbon and 15% sherry, selected by Nico Veerkamp, purchasing manager at Dutch spirits wholesaler and independent bottler van Wees, another bottling by a van Wees employee, Wesley Wesseling, followed at the end of 2021. He opted for a blend with 87.5% bourbon and 12.5% sherry.

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