Kilchoman Private Single Cask 45/2006 for Siingel Målt Skaun

Cask No.: 45/2006

Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel

Date Filled: 4.5.2006

Date Bottled: 20.6.2016

Age: 10 yo

Strength: 57,6 % abv

Phenol level: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 239

Bottle volume: 0,7 l

Bottle code: 45/06 20/6/16

Distribution: Private Cask (Sweden)

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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 Swedish whisky club Siingel Målt Skaun had its Kilchoman cask bottled after pretty much 10 years.

Of the many 10-year-old private cask releases that could be tasted from 2016, this bottling is undoubtedly one of the best. The whisky is already surprisingly well matured for 10 years; the typical notes of a young Kilchoman (citrus, cooked yellow fruit, stewed fruit, malt) have already clearly changed to tropical fruit (mango, yellow melon). A lot of the ashy, maritime peat smoke nose has been retained and the alcohol content, which provides a lovely oily mouthfeel, is still very high. A really great whisky!

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