"THE CHAIN CHAPTER 2" UNCHARTED WHISKY CO. CHAIN PIER DISTILLERY 5 YEAR OLD SINGLE MALT SCOTCH WHISKY
Edinburgh's First Whisky in a Century
A Distillery That Existed Long Enough to Make 39 Casks
Chain Pier was built in 2019 on Edinburgh's historic Leith waterfront, the first whisky production inside the Edinburgh city limits in over 100 years. It was always meant to be an experimental precursor, a proof of concept for what would eventually become the fully operational Bonnington Distillery. It ran, it filled casks, and then it was quietly dismantled.
Total output, for all time: 39 casks. That is the entire production history of a distillery that briefly ended Edinburgh's century-long whisky drought. The site today is a maturation warehouse surrounded by new apartments. What remains in those 39 casks is the only Chain Pier whisky the world will ever get.
Uncharted Whisky Co. previously bottled cask #34 (Chapter 1) and is holding cask #36 back for longer maturation (Chapter 3). This is cask #8, the second chapter of the story, aged five years in a first-fill French red wine barrique.
Owners-Only Guarantee
Chapter 2 Gets You Chapter 3
Chapter 3 will be bottled from cask #36 once it is ready. When that day comes, the release will be balloted, which is how almost every genuinely rare single cask is distributed.
Not for Chapter 2 owners. Anyone who buys this bottling is guaranteed a bottle of Chapter 3 when it is released. No ballot. No waiting list. No hoping your name gets pulled. The only way to secure Chapter 3 is to own Chapter 2.
Any customer who buys the Chapter 2 bottling will be offered the Chain Pier Chapter 3 bottling when it is ready, without the need to ballot.The whisky inside is worth the story around it. The Chain Pier distillate is heavy, meaty, almost savoury, nothing like what people expect from a young Lowland single malt. Five years is young on paper, but this spirit tastes nothing like new make. The first-fill French red wine barrique has done something unusual: added weight and flavor without the usual red wine cask calling cards.
Single cask. Cask strength at 57.6%. Natural colour. Non-chill filtered.
Distillery profile, Chain Pier
- Built in 2019 in Leith, Edinburgh, as the experimental forerunner of what would become Bonnington Distillery.
- The first whisky distillery to produce spirit within Edinburgh city limits in more than a century.
- Produced a total of 39 casks before being dismantled. No more will ever exist.
- The original site now serves as a maturation warehouse, with the surrounding neighborhood redeveloped into modern apartments.
Cask profile, 1st fill French red wine barrique
A red wine cask finish on whisky is usually easy to spot. Jammy fruit, tannin, that distinctive "wine note" that either works or it doesn't. This cask did something different.
The French red wine barrique integrated with the Chain Pier distillate so completely that the wine character does not announce itself. It shows up in the finish as brighter red fruit and a touch of wine, but the main event is the distillate itself: heavy, rich, carrying butterscotch and oak. More like what you would expect from a sweet fortified wine cask than a dry red wine barrique. A genuinely unusual piece of cask influence.
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Brand | Uncharted Whisky Co. |
| Release name | "The Chain Chapter 2" |
| Whisky style | Single malt Scotch whisky |
| Region | Lowlands (Leith, Edinburgh) |
| Distillery | Chain Pier Distillery (dismantled) |
| Distillery lifetime output | 39 casks total, ever |
| Cask number | #8 of 39 |
| Age | 5 years |
| ABV | 57.6% (true cask strength) |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Maturation | 1st Fill French Red Wine Barrique (full maturation) |
| Cask reference | UC045 |
| Distillation date | April 19, 2019 |
| Bottling date | March 2025 |
| Global outturn | 294 bottles |
| USA allocation | 30 bottles |
| Non-chill filtered | Yes |
| Natural colour | Yes |
| Chapter 3 guarantee | Yes — no ballot required |
The Whiskey Lab's Quality Commitments
- Single Cask: Ensuring a unique profile for each release.
- True Cask Strength: Delivered with the full intensity of flavor.
- Natural Colour & Non-Chill Filtered: Preserving the authentic character and purity of the whisky.
