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A few days ago, one of the still rare Calvados bottlings was released for the Australian wine and spirits merchant Nicks Wine Merchants. By the way, this is the 5th Kilchoman Single Cask Release for the Australian market.The whisky has been matured in a fresh bourbon barrel for 7 years before being finished in a Calvados hogshead for 10 months. […]
Read moreKilchoman proudly announced today the arrival of a shipment of Amarone wine casks from the Valpolicella region, which will be filled in the following days (Anthony Wills had already mentioned this briefly on 4 June at the Fèis Ìle Experimental Cask Live Tasting). So in a few years’ time, we can look forward to Kilchoman whiskies matured in another “experimental […]
Read moreFollowing the reopening of the visitor centre, which was temporarily closed due to the COVID pandemic, Kilchoman has now also resumed the bottling of Distillery Shop Exclusive releases. We hope, of course, that the series of Online Shop Exclusives introduced in the meantime will nevertheless continue. Not only because it is still extremely difficult to get to Islay at the […]
Read moreOn June 3, the Kilchoman Open Day at the Fèis Ìle 2021 Kilchoman also released a new Online Shop Exclusive bottling.It is a 10 year old STR Cask finish, the oldest release with this type of cask so far. Distilled on May 12, 2011, the whisky was first matured for over 8 years in a fresh bourbon barrel (No. 232/2011) […]
Read moreThe Dutch Kilchoman importer Bresser & Timmer just released the first 15-year-old Kilchoman bottling worldwide. One of the few remaining casks from Kilchoman’s early days has now been bottled.The Bourbon Barrel 29/2006 was filled on 20 April 2006 and bottled on 27 April 2021 with an alcohol content of 53.0%. After a handful of 14-year-old Kilchomans released so far, all […]
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