Kilchoman Vintage 2006

Cask type: 80% 1st Fill- und 20% Refill Bourbon Barrels

Vintage: 2006

Bottled: 11/2011

Age: 5 yo

Strength: 46,0 % abv

Level of phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm

Number of bottles: 11.300

Bottle volume: 0,05 l / 0,7 l / 0,7 l (Futures Bottling with Bottle No.) / 0,75 l

Bottle code: 11/9714

GTIN: 5 060210 700188

Distribution: worldwide

With the Vintage 2006 Release, which first became available in the Kilchoman Online Shop on 14 November 2011, Kilchoman launched a range of limited-edition vintage whiskies. In future, a new release was to be launched every two years, each with one year’s additional maturation.

Apart from a few single cask bottlings already released during 2011, the Vintage 2006 was the first official bottling of a 5 year old Kilchoman whisky. With it, the “Futures” – rights to the first bottling of a 5-year-old Kilchoman – previously sold by the Kilchoman Distillery were redeemed. The Futures bottles and cartons were individually hand-numbered.

*The US version still appeared in the old bottle design.*

*The Futures bottles were given a sticker on the back showing the bottle number*

Tasting Notes:

Colour: very light gold / dark straw

Nose: dry ash, behind it coconut, vanilla, fresh, slightly pungent, very little yellow fruit, in addition honey and nut, after longer standing also light cask tones: damp sawdust

Taste: very dry, but in addition nice malty-fruity sweetness, some yellow fruits – rather fruit candies, rather moussing and astringent, only slightly oily, on the whole rather fresh looking, somewhat metallic and slightly bitter

Finish: medium length, peaty-dry, only slightly bitter

Conclusion: hardly any new make character