New Kilchoman Series “The Sister Casks – A Maturation Journey” for Germany announced

To mark its 50th anniversary, German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen has now announced “The Sister Casks – A Maturation Journey”, a new series of Kilchoman single cask bottlings.

The six releases consist of three pairs of “sister cask bottlings”, i.e. two casks that were filled on the same day and then stored side by side in the Kilchoman warehouses for many years before being bottled on the same day.

Due to the large number of precisely labelled single cask bottlings released each year, Kilchoman has always offered whisky lovers the opportunity to compare different maturation periods or cask types to a degree that is hardly possible with any other distillery. With the new series, it is now even possible to compare casks where all the maturation parameters were the same. This is a fascinating insight into the “mystery” of cask maturation that Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft has made possible.

The casks selected by Peter Wills and Stephan Ehmke are two 13-year-old 1st fill bourbon barrels, two 15-year-old Oloroso sherry hogsheads and two 9-year-old 100% Islay 1st fill bourbon barrels. The two Oloroso sherry casks are among the oldest Oloroso single cask bottlings released by Kilchoman to date.
With the two nine-year-old 100% Islay Single Farm Single Malt casks 650/2014 and 653/2014, a comparison with the sister cask 642/2014, which was released at the age of 8 years in the summer of 2023 as part of the sixth Uniquely Islay series An Samhradh 2023, should also be very interesting.

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Pictures by Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft

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Here are the details of the individual bottlings:

  • 13 yo Single Cask (Sister Cask Series – 1st Fill Bourbon Sister Cask 1)
    Cask 478/2010, 4.9.2010 – 5.2.2024, 54,5 %, 248 bottles
  • 13 yo Single Cask (Sister Cask Series – 1st Fill Bourbon Sister Cask 2)
    Cask 479/2010, 4.9.2010 – 5.2.2024, 53,8 %, 235 bottles
  • 15 yo Single Cask (Sister Cask Series – Oloroso Sherry Sister Cask 1) 
    Cask 633/2008, 4.12.2008 – 5.2.2024, 52,4 %, 302 bottles
  • 15 yo Single Cask (Sister Cask Series – Oloroso Sherry Sister Cask 2)
    Cask 639/2008, 4.12.2008 – 5.2.2024, 51,1 %, 271 bottles
  • 100% Islay 9 yo Single Cask (Sister Cask Series – 100% Islay Sister Cask 1)
    Cask 650/2014, 20.8.2014 – 5.2.2024, 55,3 %, 200 bottles
  • 100% Islay 9 yo Single Cask (Sister Cask Series – 100% Islay Sister Cask 2)
    Cask 653/2014, 20.8.2014 – 5.2.2024, 56,7 %, 248 bottles

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