Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting selected by The Whisky Shop (2018 Edition: 87,5 / 12,5)

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

Vintage: 2018

Age: NAS

Strength: 46,0 % abv

Level of Phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,75 l

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 Whisky Shop in San Francisco released several MBCV bottlings. For the first release listed here, which appeared in 2018, a sherry content of 12.5% was chosen. This was followed in 2019 by a bottling with 5% sherry and, finally, in 2022, another bottling with a sherry cask content of 12.5%.

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