Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting selected by Whisky.de (1st Edition: 87,5 / 12,5)

Vat No.: 1002

Cask type: Bourbon Barrels (87,5 %), Oloroso Sherry Casks (12,5 %)

Date Bottled: 23.11.2020

Age: NAS

Strength: 46,0 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Bottle code: MCV 23.11.20 20/117

GTIN: 5 060210 703349

Market: Germany

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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.

Germany’s largest whisky retailer, Whisky.de, only released its first MBCV bottling at the end of 2020, opting for a sherry content of 12.5%. This was followed in early 2021 by another variant with 15% sherry and, in mid-2021, another with 15% and a bottling with 7.5% sherry cask content.

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