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Kilchoman today announced that the 6th Edition of the annual Club Release will be available exclusively to Club members from noon (GMT) on Wednesday 6 December at £99.00 per bottle. Due to the low number of 1,241 bottles, sales are limited to one bottle per person. The 2017 Club Release is a vatting of five 10-year-old bourbon barrels at cask […]
Read moreWith the “Red Wine Cask Matured Edition” released today, 8 October, Kilchoman now continues the series of wine releases after the Port, Madeira and Sauternes wine releases of recent years. Distilled in 2012, the whisky was matured for 5 years in Red Wine casks from the Portuguese Douro Valley. 20 casks were filled for this release, the yield was almost […]
Read moreToday, 4th September, marks the official launch of the Vintage 2009 release. The 4th edition of the biennial series sets another new age record, it is the first 8 year old globally available release of a Kilchoman whisky. This year, it comes up with an innovation: while the first three editions were matured exclusively in bourbon barrels, this time Anthony […]
Read moreYesterday, 1st May, Kilchoman released the “100% Islay 7th Edition”. This year’s bottling of the series was distilled in 2010 and produced from barley grown, malted, distilled, matured and bottled at the distillery. The whisky was matured for over 7 years in fresh and refill ex-bourbon barrels, making it the longest matured edition of the “100% Islay” releases to date. […]
Read moreKilchoman announced the release of the 5th edition of the annual “Club Release” reserved for Kilchoman Club members for 14 November. On this day, it will be available for £109,50 – limited to one bottle per person – in the distillery’s web shop. This time, the special feature of the bottling is not due to a special cask maturation, but […]
Read moreKilchoman has now released a new Distillery Shop Exclusive Release for the Visitor Centre. This time it is a vatting of three ex-bourbon barrels in which the 100% Islay whisky, made from the farm’s own barley, was initially matured for just over 4 years and was then decanted into Oloroso sherry hogsheads on 21 December 2015 and finished in these […]
Read moreOn September 26, 2016, following the “Original Cask Strength Release” of 2014, Kilchoman presented a very special cask maturation with the 2nd edition of the series: a “Quarter Cask Release”. Quarter Casks, as the name suggests, are only a quarter of the size of a 500-litre cask. The significantly larger surface area of the cask compared to its volume results […]
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