Kilchoman 10 yo Single Cask 12/2007 for The Distillery Shop

Cask No.: 12/2007

Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 17.1.2007

Date Bottled: 9.8.2018

Age: 11 yo

Strength: 54,7 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 127

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Distribution: Distillery Shop Exclusive

.

The cask no. 12/2007 was originally a private cask of a group of owners called “Friends of Kilchoman”. However, Kilchoman bought back the cask or the larger part of its contents, 96 bottles were bottled for Friends of Kilchoman, 127 bottles on the same day for the Kilchoman Distillery Shop. The age of 10 years stated on the label and the box is a typo.

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.