Kilchoman Red Wine Cask Matured Edition released

With the “Red Wine Cask Matured Edition” released today, 8 October 2017, Kilchoman now continues the series of wine releases after the Port, Madeira and Sauternes wine releases of recent years.

Distilled in 2012, the whisky was matured for five years in Red Wine casks from the Portuguese Douro Valley.

Twenty casks were selected for this release. After being vatted and diluted to 50% abv, they yielded 5,044 litres, which filled a good 7,000 bottles.

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Cask type: 20 red wine casks from the Portuguese Douro Valley

Filled: July 2012

Bottled: September-December 2017

Age: 5 yo

Strength: 50 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: over 7.000

Bottle volume: 0,7 l / 0,75 l

Bottle Codes:
RW 25.09.17 17/61
RW 02.10.17 17/61
RW 03.10.17 17/61
RW 05.10.17 17/61
RW 12.10.17 17/61
RW 13.10.17 17/61
RW 10.11.17 17/61 (for China)
RW 19.12.17 17/61

Barcodes:
5 060210 701055
8 92032 044547 (USA)

Distribution: worldwide

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Tasting Notes

Archer:

Nose
Oops, the smoke has the red wine barrel cut but pretty nice. With such a young guy you should expect that he is going forward. Instead, it shows only a mild, slightly ashy and grape-sweet smoky note. A little malt and a cereal touch. Fir needles in the distance. A herbal mix. 85

Taste
Sweet and overripe grapes, ashen smoke. Fresh oak chips and menthol. Toffee, caramel. Greasy with time. 85

Finish
Rather short, still slightly smoky and with the sweetness of the grapes. Herbe herbs. 84

There are good to very good approaches to find, but it lacks depth to achieve top marks here. In my opinion, the wine cask hides and conceals too many of the good Kilchoman flavors.

87/100 points

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