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And again we can announce the appearance of a new Distillery Shop Exclusive release on the shelves of the Visitor Centre. It is a Single Oloroso Sherry Butt, bottled after almost 12 years of maturation, i.e. one of the oldest sherry cask maturations Kilchoman has released to date. Cask Number: 423/2007 Cask type: Oloroso Sherry Butt Distillation Date: 26.1.2011 Bottling […]
Read moreAfter the farewell of Nicole Lindsay, who managed the Kilchoman Visitor Centre from 2017 to 2019 (we reported), a new manager has now taken up work after exactly one month. Carol-Ann MacTaggart, who comes from Bowmore, attended Islay High School there and worked at Lochside Hotel in Bowmore from 2005-2013. She then worked as Assistant Manager at the Bridgend Hotel, […]
Read moreKilchoman announced today on its website that it is looking for a sales manager for the UK. Here is the text: We are looking for a UK Sales Manager to join the team based in our Edinburgh office. We have taken UK distribution of our Single Malts back in-house and are looking for a driven individual with experience in the […]
Read moreThe 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 […]
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