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As reported in the social media today, Hungarian zoologist and obvious Kilchoman fan Barna Páll-Gergely has identified a land snail found in North Vietnam in 2013 by researchers from the Natural History Museum London as a new species and named it after the Kilchoman distillery. The new land snail species is named Entadella kilchomani and reaches a diameter of 3.5 […]
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 […]
Read moreAfter the farewell of Nicole Lindsay, who managed the Kilchoman Visitor Centre from 2017 to 2019 (we reported), a new manager has now taken up work after exactly one month. Carol-Ann MacTaggart, who comes from Bowmore, attended Islay High School there and worked at Lochside Hotel in Bowmore from 2005-2013. She then worked as Assistant Manager at the Bridgend Hotel, […]
Read moreKilchoman announced today on its website that it is looking for a sales manager for the UK. Here is the text: We are looking for a UK Sales Manager to join the team based in our Edinburgh office. We have taken UK distribution of our Single Malts back in-house and are looking for a driven individual with experience in the […]
Read moreThe latest and fifth edition of the biennial Vintage series is a vatting of 45 casks – 42 ex-Bourbon Barrels and 3 Oloroso Sherry Butts – all filled in 2010. The 9-year-old whisky, with an alcohol content of 48%, was bottled at Kilchoman without colouring and without chill filtration, as usual. The 15.000-bottle release will be launched on October 16th […]
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