Chapter 7 Chronicle 8 Year Old 2011 Scotch Whisky

A classic Islay Single Malt profile from a secret distillery, bottled strong and pure..

The premiss of Chapter 7 Whisky is simple — each cask of Whisky is unique. The wood, age, temperature, its location in the rick-house… everything tells its own story. Large Scotch producers marry casks in large vats before bottling so that the master blender can try to make them all taste the same. The folks at Chapter 7 Whisky think that’s a shame.

Chapter 7 is the brain-child of Selim Evin. He thinks that each cask should tell its own unique tale, so he travels to Scotland and Ireland to hand-select single casks from the inventories of the world’s greatest distilleries. Then he custom bottles each one with its own story. How many bottles you ask? Well, until the barrel is empty.

Chapter 7 Chronicle 8 Year Old 2011 is supposed to be a "Secret." And the folks at Chapter 7 will tell us a TON of info about these casks… everything EXCEPT the source distillery. For example, they’ll tell us that this Chronicle release is comprised of three ex-Bourbon casks that were distilled in 2011, aged five years, then vatted, and re-racked to age another three years for a total of eight. But a handful of folks have tasted a drop or two and we all have our guesses. The most common guess is that the casks come from the Caol Ila Distillery, but that’s just an educated guess. What really matters is the taste, and if you love Islay drams you WILL love this one a LOT at 49.2% ABV.

Smartass Corner:
Chapter 7 has organized their releases into three categories. "Monologues" are single cask releases with a strictly limited quantity. "Anecdotes" are small batch or select blends that cannot be reproduced. Finally, "Chronicles" are small batch editions that are reproducible in limited releases.