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On the occasion of the Islay Festival Fèis Ìle, the well-known French whisky merchant La Maison du Whisky, which is also the Kilchoman importer for France, has once again released an exclusive range of whiskies from the famous island under the name Islay Selection. Among them are two new Kilchoman Small Batch releases for France. As with two announced bottlings […]
Read moreOn 1 June, the Kilchoman Open Day of Fèis Ìle 2023, Kilchoman released another Distillery Exclusive Release as a “surprise bottle”, so to speak. And this is an absolute rarity with a 16-year-old Oloroso Sherry cask bottling. After the first two 16-year-old Kilchoman releases of the previous year, which were matured in bourbon barrels, Kilchoman has now bottled one of […]
Read moreJust in time for Fèis Ìle, a new Distillery Exclusive Release has been available in the Kilchoman visitor centre since yesterday. This is sure to meet with great interest among visitors to the distillery, as it is a world first: the first Kilchoman Calvados Full Maturation. Since the release of the first Kilchoman Calvados Finish bottling on 24 September 2020, […]
Read moreThe basis of the whiskies in the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which began in 2019, is an already finished Machir Bay vatting or Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting , i.e. a whisky with 46% alcohol strength, which was previously matured for approx. 5 years predominantly in bourbon barrels and 5-15% in oloroso sherry casks. This vatting is […]
Read moreIn The W Club, the customer club of the well-known British spirits chain The Whisky Shop, an exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling has now appeared once again. After a PX sherry finish in 2021, this time it is a PX sherry cask full maturation. The whisky was matured for seven and a half years in a fresh Pedro Ximénez sherry […]
Read moreThrough the famous “Land Rover Tours”, where members of the Kilchoman sales and marketing team drive across Europe in a specially painted Land Rover and stop at countless locations to hold whisky events, the names Kilchoman and Land Rover are closely linked for every fan of the distillery. Now another collaboration has taken place, revealing not only interesting aspects of […]
Read moreKilchoman Distillery today announced the release of two new limited cask expressions: the first Cognac Cask Matured and the second Fino Sherry Cask Matured Release. The casks for both small batch vattings were selected by Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills and production director Robin Bignal and bottled in March. For the first Cognac Cask Matured Limited Edition (until now, there had […]
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