All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
During the whisky fair DramFest 2020, which took place on 7 and 8 March in Christchurch, New Zealand, Anthony Wills from Kilchoman and Alex Bruce from Ardnamurchan presented a very special new bottling: KilchArd, a blended malt created from one whisky cask from each of the two distilleries. The idea for the bottling was born on a Saturday evening after […]
Read moreDue to a breakdown of the kiln Kilchoman produced an “unpeated” whisky from the farm’s own barley for a short time in late Summer 2012 (we reported). Since the “low wines and feints receiver” from which the spirit still is filled was not laboriously emptied in between the alternating distillation runs with peated Port Ellen malt, however, the result was […]
Read moreAs one of the first new Kilchoman releases of 2020, Dutch importer Bresser & Timmer has just launched an STR-Finish Single Cask bottling.It has been matured in a fresh bourbon barrel (No. 628/2012) for nearly 7 years before being finished in an STR cask (Shaved, Toasted and Recharred ex-red wine hogshead) for over 5 month. After the “STR Cask Matured […]
Read moreThe very active whisky dealer Marco Bonn of the Brühler Whisky House, who has already distinguished himself as an independent bottler of some excellent whiskies, has now also chosen his own Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting. (For the concept of the Collaborative Vatting series see here). He decided on the previously rarely chosen variant with 12.5% sherry. The bottle can […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of this year’s special edition for Kilchoman Club members. This year’s edition is a vatting of 3 Bourbon Barrels and one Oloroso Sherry Butt, filled between October 2006 and December 2007. The 1,242 bottles with an alcohol content of 54.3% abv will be available in the online shop for 119.40 pounds on Thursday, 28 November […]
Read moreFollowing releases for Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, the first bottling for Great Britain has now been launched a few days ago in the new series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, with which Kilchoman aims to showcase its experimental side. Each of the individual batches has been specially created for individual countries and shows the influence of […]
Read moreAnd 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 […]
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