Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting selected by Whisky.de (5th Edition: 85/15 – Vat No. 5444)

Vat No.: 5444

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

Age: NAS

Date Bottled: 11.8.2021

Strength: 46,0 %

Level of phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Bottle code: MCV 11.08.21 21/153

GTIN: 5 060210 704391

Market: Germany

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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.

Germany’s largest online whisky retailer, Whisky.de, released five MBCV bottlings between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021. Three times it opted for the variant with 85% bourbon and 15% sherry cask content (Vat Nos. 1902, 4399, 5444). The edition listed here was the fifth overall and the third with a sherry content of 15%.

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