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An exclusive Kilchoman Single Cask Release was bottled for the Roma Whisky Festival 2018, which took place on 3 and 4 March 2018. The whisky was matured for five and a half years in a fresh ex-bourbon barrel. . Cask No.: 471/2011 Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel Date Filled: 11.8.2011 Date Bottled: 5.2.2018 Age: 6 yo Strength: 58,6 % […]
Read moreKilchoman 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 moreKilchoman today announced its grand annual marketing tour. This year, George and Peter Wills will travel from south to north along the US West Coast in the Kilchoman Landrover from 4 to 15 September. On the more than 1,500 miles from Los Angeles to Seattle, they will conduct Kilchoman tastings in 18 different locations.The tour will again feature an exclusive […]
Read moreOn 29 July 2017, Explorers Club Members Chad Anderson and Justin Fornal, along with fellow swimmer Johnnie Mundell, completed the world’s first circumnavigational swim of the 100-mile coastline of Islay. Entitled The Great Islay Swim, the circumnavigation took eight days. The aim of the expedition was to celebrate the island of Islay – to include each of the local distilleries, […]
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. […]
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