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The latest and fifth edition of the biennial Vintage series is a vatting of 45 casks – 42 ex-Bourbon Barrels and 3 Oloroso Sherry Butts – all filled in 2010. The 9-year-old whisky, with an alcohol content of 48%, was bottled at Kilchoman without colouring and without chill filtration, as usual. The 15.000-bottle release will be launched on October 16th […]
Read moreNicole Lindsay, the previous head of the visitor centre, had her last working day on 5 October. She is moving to Springbank Distillers Ltd as Regional Sales Manager and will be responsible for East Asia. In October 2015 she started working at Kilchoman, first in the café, from 2016 in the office and as a tour guide. In March 2017 […]
Read moreIn autumn 2019, the first edition of a new Kilchoman series was released in Sweden with the “Sweden Exclusive Volume 1”. This is a bottling of an 8 year old bourbon barrel. . Cask No.: 175/2011 Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel Date Filled: 7.4.2011 Date Bottled: 4.9.2019 Age: 8 yo Strength: 56,5 % Phenol level: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 258 […]
Read more10 years ago, on September 9, 2009, the Kilchoman distillery released its first single malt whisky, the “Kilchoman Inaugural Release”. To celebrate this anniversary, the German Kilchoman importer “Alba Import” organised a series of tastings with Peter Wills in six German cities. As usual on previous Kilchoman tours, these tastings will take place at local whisky dealers. These are the […]
Read moreAfter the construction work on the new still house was finished in summer with the installation of a panorama window (we reported), there are new construction works to announce again. The old kiln building, which will continue to be used as a malt warehouse, has been given a new extension. As can be seen on the photo below, a popular […]
Read moreA new Distillery Shop Exclusive Release has appeared at the Kilchoman Visitor Centre today, 17 September 2019: a Single Farm Single Malt – the name Kilchoman has recently given to its 100% Islay single cask bottlings – for the price of £82.50. It is a bottling of a fresh ex-bourbon barrel in which the whisky, made from the farm’s own […]
Read moreLovers of the 100% Islay range – which includes virtually all Kilchomania members – will be particularly pleased with the announcement of the latest release for 12 September 2019. The 9th edition is a vatting of 43 ex-bourbon barrels matured for over 9 years in Kilchoman warehouses. This is whisky made from malt from the 2007 and 2009 barley harvests. […]
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