All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
To celebrate the 175th anniversary of the famous Glenalmond College, a special whisky has now been released: a blended malt composed of a barrel of peated Kilchoman from 2014 and a barrel of unpeated Ardnamurchan from 2015. After KilchArd, this is another collaboration between the two friendly distilleries. George, James and Peter Wills of Kilchoman and Alex Bruce of Adelphi […]
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 moreThe Chinese Kilchoman importer Single Malt Club China (SMCC) announced today the release of a new series of Kilchoman single cask bottlings. The theme of the series is camping and so the labels of the individual releases are decorated with graphics of camping utensils. Among the five bottlings is a Marsala Finish bottled on 9 March, the first Kilchoman release […]
Read moreThe Australian Whisky Appreciation Society (AWAS) has now announced the release of two exclusive Kilchoman Single Cask bottlings: a seven-year-old Sauternes Single Cask Finish and an eight-year-old Mezcal Single Cask Finish. Both releases are Kilchoman firsts of the corresponding cask type on the Australian market. It is also the first time that two Kilchoman single cask bottlings have been released […]
Read moreIn Finland, another Small Batch Release has now been released under the name Turve. Even though it comes in the familiar orange packaging, it is not part of the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets that began in 2019, of which three have already been bottled for Finland. In these, simply put, a Machir Bay vatting is married […]
Read moreThe well-known French whisky merchant La Maison du Whisky, which is also the Kilchoman importer for France, has now released two new small batch bottlings for the French market under the name French Inspiration. The basis of the whiskies in the 2019 introduced new series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets is always an already finished Machir Bay vatting or Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting , […]
Read moreDuring Fèis Ìle 2022, a new Distillery Shop Exclusive bottling also hit the shelves of the Kilchoman Visitor Centre. It is a Mezcal Cask Finish, one year after the first Kilchoman Mezcal Finish release, which was released in May 2021, thus completing the dozen of these bottlings worldwide. According to the information on the packaging, the whisky was initially matured […]
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