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After the world’s first Kilchoman Marsala cask finish was released as a Distillery Shop Exclusive Release in March 2022, another of the still extremely rare Marsala finishings is now available at the distillery’s visitor centre for £92.40. The whisky was first matured in a fresh ex-bourbon barrel for more than 8 years before being finished in a Marsala hogshead for […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of its new annual 100% Islay Limited Release. It is expected to be available at retailers worldwide later this week. This year’s 12th release is a vatting of 29 ex-bourbon barrels and 6 oloroso sherry butts that matured for over 8 years in Kilchoman warehouses. The barley used was of the Publican variety, harvested at […]
Read moreOn 13 September 2019, the hotel-restaurant “Warndtperle” in Völklingen, Saarland, became the sixth and so far last German location to be awarded the status of a Kilchoman Comraich Bar. To mark the three-year anniversary, owner Jörg Peters, with the active help of kilchomania.com, has planned a series of Kilchoman events for the last weekend in September. On Friday evening, there […]
Read moreIn the USA – more precisely in some liquor stores in the Mid Atlantic Region – a single cask bottling of a three-year-old Kilchoman (!) has been available since mid-August. This bottling goes back to the initiative of Jared Card, the Mid Atlantic Region manager of the US importer ImpEx Beverages, As a fan of young Kilchoman whiskies, in times […]
Read moreThe basis of the whiskies in the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets launched in 2019, with which Kilchoman aims to showcase its experimental side, is always 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. […]
Read moreTo celebrate the 175th anniversary of the famous Glenalmond College, a special whisky has now been released: a blended malt composed of a barrel of peated Kilchoman from 2014 and a barrel of unpeated Ardnamurchan from 2015. After KilchArd, this is another collaboration between the two friendly distilleries. George, James and Peter Wills of Kilchoman and Alex Bruce of Adelphi […]
Read moreIn a video posted on Facebook today, Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills unveiled the distillery’s newly built first Racked Warehouse. In the past, Kilchoman had always stored its casks in so-called “Dunnage” warehouses; all five Kilchoman warehouses to date are of this type, in which the casks are stored three rows high on a tamped floor. After Kilchoman had massively increased […]
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