All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
The Comraich releases, bottled in batches, are special bottlings for the bars of the same name, which can only be tasted there and are not sold on the market. There is now a worldwide network of over 100 whisky bars that have been granted Comraich Bar status by Kilchoman. An overview can be found here. Batch No. 6 has been […]
Read moreSince 2012, Kilchoman has released an exclusive bottling at the end of the year for the members of the Kilchoman Club, in which every Kilchoman friend can register online. Anthony Wills always tried to choose very special casks for these bottlings and so the club releases became highlights of the respective year for many Kilchoman fans. Today Kilchoman has announced […]
Read moreIt seems to become a nice tradition: as in the past two years, Kilchoman will again host a “Christmas Online Tasting” with Anthony and George Wills on Wednesday 28 December from 6pm UK time. The tasting pack will include the two Core Range whiskies Machir Bay and Loch Gorm, plus two samples of new bottlings, this time a Calvados Double […]
Read moreAfter a series of smaller Machir Bay Cask Strength releases on the occasion of the previously so popular Kilchoman Tasting Tours in Europe, Asia and the USA, Kilchoman had already released a Machir Bay Cask Strength Limited Edition at Christmas 2020 in response to many customer requests, thus making it possible for a wider circle of whisky fans to try […]
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 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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