Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting selected by Aqua vitae (Taiwan)

Cask type: Bourbon Barrels, Oloroso Sherry Casks (ratio not specified)

Age: NAS

Date Bottled: 2019

Strength: 46,0 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Market: Taiwan

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From 2018 to 2023, Kilchoman offered local retailers the opportunity to create customised bottlings of the distillery´s flagship whisky Machir Bay with the ‘Machir Bay Collaborative Vattings’.

Deviating from the normal cask composition of Machir Bay, which consists of 90% bourbon and 10% Oloroso sherry cask-matured whisky, retailers could choose between four different variants with slightly altered proportions for the Collaborative Vattings: 95% bourbon / 5% sherry, 92.5% bourbon / 7.5% sherry, 87.5% bourbon / 12.5% sherry or 85% bourbon / 15% sherry cask-matured whisky. As with the ‘normal’ Machir Bay bottlings, the alcohol content was 46%. The boxes and bottles in the usual Machir Bay design were labelled with an individual sticker from the retailer.

In 2019, Taiwanese retailer and independent bottler Aqua vitae from Kaohsiung released an MBCV bottling that unusually did not specify the bourbon-sherry ratio. In its advertising, Aqua vitae simply referred to an ‘individual blend selected by company founder Allen Chen’.

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