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The Kilchoman Christmas online tastings have become a nice tradition since 2020. Now Kilchoman has announced this year’s tasting. It will take place on Friday, 27 December from 7pm Islay time and will be hosted by Anthony Wills and his eldest son George Wills. As always, you can follow the event on Facebook and YouTube. The tasting packs, which also […]
Read moreTraditionally, Kilchoman releases an exclusive bottling for the members of its Kilchoman Club at the end of each year. This year’s 13th club release has now been announced. Anthony Wills and Robin Bignal decided on a nine-year-old single cask bottling of an Oloroso sherry butt. Sourced from Bodega José y Miguel Martín in Jerez, cask 209/2015 is a fresh ex-oloroso […]
Read moreThe Machir Bay cask strength bottlings occasionally released by Kilchoman enjoyed great popularity among Kilchoman fans. They showed Kilchoman’s standard whisky from an even more fruity side. It is therefore not surprising that Kilchoman was repeatedly asked to bottle the second general release Sanaig at cask strength. So far, only the participants of the “DNA” online tasting at Fèis Ìle […]
Read moreThe Port Cask Matured 2024 Edition, which had been announced for some time for the autumn, has now been released. This is already the third limited release in the history of Kilchoman to have been fully matured in port wine casks. For the first Port Cask Matured Edition, released in 2014, only fresh Ruby Port Hogsheads were used, in which […]
Read moreWhile we get numerous impressions of the current major Kilchoman Asia Tour on social media every day, the distillery has now announced the next, third and final promotional tour of the year, a US tour, which, like the European and Asian tours, will be dedicated to the new batch strength release. . . James Wills, the middle of three sons […]
Read moreAs has always been the case since 2018, when the release date of the annual Limited 100% Islay Release was moved to autumn, this year’s edition was also released on time in September. This year’s 14th edition is a vatting of ex-bourbon barrels and Oloroso sherry casks. Barley of the Publican variety was used, which was harvested at Rockside Farm […]
Read moreAfter Kilchoman conducted a major European tour for the launch of its third general release, the Batch Strength Release, in spring 2024, which took the Kilchoman Sales & Marketing team through 20 Eureopean countries in 10 weeks, a corresponding tour has now been announced for Asia. . . From 16 September to 28 October, 9 countries in East and Southeast […]
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