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Since a few days, the 4th edition of the Founders Cask series is available in British whisky shops. The series, distributed exclusively in Great Britain, is based on the idea that each of the five members of the family of Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills selects a special cask of Kilchoman whisky.This edition should not be confused with “The Wills Family […]
Read moreMore than a year ago, Harvest – Stage 1, the first bottling of the Genesis series developed by the German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen, was released. Now the second bottling of the series, Malting – Stage 2, followed just in time for the Christmas season. The marketing concept of the Genesis series is to trace the production of Kilchoman […]
Read moreCask No: 742/2013 Cask type: Bourbon Barrel, Mezcal Cask Finish Distillation Date: 18.10.2013 Bottling Date: 13.8.2021 Age: 7 yo Strength: 55,2 % abv Phenol level: 50 ppm Bottle volume: 0,7 l Market: Canada . The number of still very rare Kilchoman Mezcal Cask bottlings is slowly but surely growing. Following the just released fourth worldwide Mezcal Finish release for the […]
Read moreCask types: 70 % Bourbon Barrels / 5 % Oloroso Sherry Cask / 25 % Sauternes Hogshead Age: NAS Date Bottled: 16.11.2021 Strength: 49,1 % abv Phenol level: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 2.100 Bottle volume: 0,7 l Bottle Code: SB 16.11.21 21/125 Barcode: 5 060210 704988 Market: UK . Just in time for the festive season, the 3rd Kilchoman […]
Read moreAfter “Blond” and “Auburn” at the end of 2020 and “Lava” in the middle of 2021, “Añejo” is now the fourth Kilchoman single cask release from the well-known Dutch online spirits retailer drankdozijn (D12). The tradition of giving the D12 Kilchoman Single Cask bottlings artificial names and not simply writing “for DrankDozijn” on the label, as is usually the case, […]
Read moreFrom 19 to 21 November, the International Whisky Festival was supposed to take place in The Hague. As festival releases, the organisers had two different Kilchoman single casks bottled: an STR cask finish and one of the still extremely rare mezcal cask finishings. However, due to the stricter Corona regulations in the Netherlands, the festival had to be cancelled at […]
Read moreAnthony Wills had emphasised several times in the recent past that Kilchoman would like to focus more on “provenance” in the future when it comes to the wine casks used for whisky maturation. I.e. instead of using “anonymous” Sauternes or red wine casks, to indicate the exact origin, grape variety and producer. However, he also stressed that it is not […]
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