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Just in time for Fèis Ìle, a new Distillery Exclusive Release has been available in the Kilchoman visitor centre since yesterday. This is sure to meet with great interest among visitors to the distillery, as it is a world first: the first Kilchoman Calvados Full Maturation. Since the release of the first Kilchoman Calvados Finish bottling on 24 September 2020, […]
Read moreThe basis of the whiskies in the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which began in 2019, is an already finished Machir Bay vatting or Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting , i.e. a whisky with 46% alcohol strength, which was previously matured for approx. 5 years predominantly in bourbon barrels and 5-15% in oloroso sherry casks. This vatting is […]
Read moreIn The W Club, the customer club of the well-known British spirits chain The Whisky Shop, an exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling has now appeared once again. After a PX sherry finish in 2021, this time it is a PX sherry cask full maturation. The whisky was matured for seven and a half years in a fresh Pedro Ximénez sherry […]
Read moreThrough the famous “Land Rover Tours”, where members of the Kilchoman sales and marketing team drive across Europe in a specially painted Land Rover and stop at countless locations to hold whisky events, the names Kilchoman and Land Rover are closely linked for every fan of the distillery. Now another collaboration has taken place, revealing not only interesting aspects of […]
Read moreThe basis of the whiskies in the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which began in 2019, is an already finished Machir Bay vatting or Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting , i.e. a whisky with 46% alcohol strength, which was previously matured for approx. 5 years predominantly in bourbon barrels and 5-15% in oloroso sherry casks. This vatting is […]
Read moreA new Distillery Shop Exclusive edition – an STR Cask Finish – is now available at the Kilchoman Visitor Center. The whisky was initially matured for just over seven years in a fresh ex-bourbon barrel and was then finished in an STR cask (Shaved, Toasted and Re-charred ex-Red Wine Cask) for 22 month. . Cask No.: 834/2013 Cask type: 1st […]
Read moreThe whisky retailer Smoke & Whisky in Starnberg has now released a 15-year-old Kilchoman Private Cask bottling from a refill bourbon barrel. In 2006 and 2007, Kilchoman sold numerous casks to private individuals in order to obtain urgently needed capital for the distillery’s ongoing operations during the economically strained early years. These were almost exclusively 1st fill and 2nd fill […]
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