Kilchoman Private Cask Release 222/2010 for Box Distillery Founders Group

Cask No.: 222/2010

Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 22.4.2010

Date Bottled: 31.8.2016

Age: 6 yo

Strength: 59,5 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 42

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Distribution: Private Cask (Sweden)

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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.

After 2007, with a few exceptions, no more private casks were sold. One such exception is cask no. 222/2010 for the founding members of the Swedish Box Distillery, later renamed High Coast Distillery. There were quite close relations between the founders of the Box Distillery and Kilchoman. In their distillery planning phase, the former took a lot of inspiration from Kilchoman, for example, the size and shape of the stills were modelled on those of Kilchoman.

In 2016, the cask was bought back by Kilchoman. As often happens in such cases, a few bottles (here 42 bottles, i.e. 7 cases) were bottled as a private cask release for the former owners.

By the way, in August 2021, the remaining cask contents were bottled as a single cask release for the Kilchoman Distillery Shop.