All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
With effect from 6 April 2020, Alba Import will no longer be the German importer of Kilchoman whisky. As Dietmar Schulz of Alba Import told us, the ideas of how the brand should be represented in Germany in the future and through which distribution channels the Kilchoman whiskies should be placed, had developed considerably apart between the two business partners […]
Read moreAs one of the first new Kilchoman releases of 2020, Dutch importer Bresser & Timmer has just launched an STR-Finish Single Cask bottling.It has been matured in a fresh bourbon barrel (No. 628/2012) for nearly 7 years before being finished in an STR cask (Shaved, Toasted and Recharred ex-red wine hogshead) for over 5 month. After the “STR Cask Matured […]
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Read moreThe very active whisky dealer Marco Bonn of the Brühler Whisky House, who has already distinguished himself as an independent bottler of some excellent whiskies, has now also chosen his own Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting. (For the concept of the Collaborative Vatting series see here). He decided on the previously rarely chosen variant with 12.5% sherry. The bottle can […]
Read moreAs reported in the social media today, Hungarian zoologist and obvious Kilchoman fan Barna Páll-Gergely has identified a land snail found in North Vietnam in 2013 by researchers from the Natural History Museum London as a new species and named it after the Kilchoman distillery. The new land snail species is named Entadella kilchomani and reaches a diameter of 3.5 […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of this year’s special edition for Kilchoman Club members. This year’s edition is a vatting of 3 Bourbon Barrels and one Oloroso Sherry Butt, filled between October 2006 and December 2007. The 1,242 bottles with an alcohol content of 54.3% abv will be available in the online shop for 119.40 pounds on Thursday, 28 November […]
Read moreFollowing releases for Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, the first bottling for Great Britain has now been launched a few days ago in the new series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, with which Kilchoman aims to showcase its experimental side. Each of the individual batches has been specially created for individual countries and shows the influence of […]
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