Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting selected by Red Spirits & Wine (Tennessee)

Pictures by Red Spirits & Wine

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

Age: NAS

Date Bottled: 2021

Strength: 46,0 %

Level of phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,75 l

Number of bottles: 120

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 liquor store Red Spirits & Wine from Nashville, Tennessee, opted for the variant with 85% bourbon and 15% sherry cask content for its MBCV bottling, released in 2021.

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