Chapter 7

Chapter 7™, an award winning Swiss independent bottler, is the brainchild of Selim Evin. Selim is a world-traveling entrepreneur living in Switzerland who was inspired by his Scottish grandfather’s passion for whisky and created Chapter 7™ in 2014 . He was taught at an early age that casks are not just vessels but they give the whisky its character and soul and thinks that each cask (barrel) should remain singular to tell its own unique story. So he travels to Scotland and Ireland to select single casks from different distilleries. Then he custom bottles each one with its own story.
an independent bottler means we do not own a distillery. We buy and bottle whiskies from different distilleries. Our speciality is single malt and blended malt Scotch whiskies. We bottle whiskies from single casks (barrels) and sometimes we do small batch bottling by vatting two or three casks. Our whisky anthology offers an opportunity to experience the distinctiveness of each cask. Most of the time we bottle our whiskies at cask strength and we do not use chill filtering to keep all of the characteristics of the whisky untouched.
Much of the final taste of whisky can come from both the type of oak used to make the cask and what that cask contained before whisky spirit was put in to it. In addition, the interaction of spirit and wood depends on a lot of factors like cask size, age of cask and different atmospheric factors such as average temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and type of warehouse. Two whiskies from the same batch can taste entirely different because the wood crafts its magic over the years in a subtly distinctive way. That’s why each cask of Single Malt Scotch Whisky is unique. A cask is as individual as a chapter in a novel. The author may be the same but the spirit always different.
Most independent bottlers go after the much-sought “big names” whereas Chapter 7™ acts as a spotlight for the lesser-known distillery casks with exceptional quality and character. Liquid Gold Award (94.5 Points) by Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2016 for Chapter 7™ Tormore Distillery 1995 Single Cask Bottling is a good example where Jim Murray expresses his surprise by quoting “Tormore...? Really....? I mean really...???”.
We studiously select whiskies select whiskies that stand in the crowd and leave a lasting impression. We offer novelty and exclusivity. each label is hand numbered to indicate total batch and unique bottle number. Depending on cask type our editions are usually between 150 to 700 bottles.