Kilchoman Private Single Cask 145/2006 for 12Barrels

Cask No.: 145/2006

Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 12.7.2006

Date Bottled: 4.7.2019

Age: 12 yo

Strength: 50,8 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 250

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Distribution: Private Cask (The Netherlands)

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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.

This is one of those bottlings. Behind “12Barrels” is a group of whisky fans living mainly in the north of the Netherlands, who one day came up with the idea of buying 12 casks of Scotch whisky and bottling them at the perfect time. Among them, the 6th cask was the Kilchoman Private Cask Release listed here. The whisky was matured for more than 12 years in a fresh ex-bourbon barrel. The fact that the group did not wait a few more days before bottling to present the world’s first 13-year-old Kilchoman whisky is probably related to their thematic fixation on the number 12…

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