Kilchoman Slightly Peated Bourbon Barrel 491/2011 for Jack Rose Dining Saloon (Washington, DC)

Cask No.: 491/2011

Cask type: Bourbon Barrel

Distillation Date: 22.8.2011

Bottling Date: 20.5.2020

Age: 8 yo

Strength: 56,5 % abv

Phenol level: n.a.

Bottle volume: 0,75 l

Market: USA

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At the beginning of 2020, Kilchoman released the first two single cask bottlings with “unpeated” whisky made from the farm’s own barley. Both were sherry hogsheads in which the whisky was stored for a good 7 years. In the second half of the year, two bottlings from the bourbon barrel were released, which were characterised by an outstanding fruitiness, as the lack of peat smoke made the distillery note even clearer.

Jack Rose Dining Saloon released a bottling from the sherry hogshead as well as one from the bourbon barrel in late summer 2020 and thus enabled its customers to directly compare both cask maturations. Both bottlings were called “slightly peated”, because despite the use of unpeated malt, the “low wines and feints receiver” was not emptied before distillation and the whole equipment was not cleaned, so that minimal peat smoke notes are still perceptible in the final product. This is also the reason why Kilchoman usually uses the term “unpeated” in inverted commas.

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