Kilchoman Private Single Cask 14/2006 for Pedigree Chums of Durham

Cask No.: 14/2006

Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 12.4.2006

Date Bottled: 14.5.2016

Strength: 57,0 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 246

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Distribution: Private Cask

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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. The cask owners, a group from Durham in England, had their cask bottled almost exactly 10 years after it was filled.

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