Kilchoman Private Single Cask 150/2007 for The Whisky Shop

Cask No.: 150/2007

Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 20.7.2007 [recte: 20.6.2007]

Date Bottled: 11.6.2018

Age: 10 yo

Strength: 56,5 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 238

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Distribution: Private Cask (UK)

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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. So there was a great wave of Kilchoman Private Cask bottlings in 2016 and 2017.

The 11-year-old bottling of the British whisky chain The Whisky Shop listed here is one of the not so rare examples of whisky shop owners participating in the Kilchoman Private Cask Programme or buying up such casks from their original owner or taking over the distribution.