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Kilchoman 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 […]
Read moreLoch Gorm is the annual bottling matured exclusively in sherry casks that has opened the Kilchoman year for many years. However, due to the postponement of the Madeira Cask Matured Release from autumn 2021 to spring 2022, it is not the first limited Kilchoman bottling this year. It will also be released a month later than usual due to ongoing […]
Read moreAfter the Islay Festival Fèis Ìle could only be held online for two years due to the Corona pandemic, it will now take place again normally with visitors this year. Kilchoman presented its program for the Kilchoman Open Day, June 2, 2022, today and presented the festival special bottling and a tasting pack for online tasting. The program will again […]
Read moreKilchoman Distillery today announced that the Madeira Cask Matured Release is now available worldwide. Originally planned as the 4th Limited Release of 2021, the global sales launch had to be postponed in autumn 2021 due to a shortage of empty Kilchoman bottles (we reported). For the release, 46 fresh Madeira Hogsheads were selected, in which the whisky distilled in May […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of the annual exclusive edition for members of the Kilchoman Club. Limited to one bottle per person, it will be available exclusively to Club Members from Wednesday, December 8th at 2pm Islay time. Always keen to select something special for the annual club release, this year Anthony Wills opted for a Small Batch of three […]
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