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During 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 […]
Read moreWith the Mezcal Finish Single Cask for Beija-Flor, the first Kilchoman Mezcal finishing for the Italian market has now been released. The whisky was initially matured for just over 7 years in a bourbon barrel and was decanted in a mezcal cask at the beginning of 2021. It was bottled on 2 March 2022, i.e. the finishing time in the […]
Read moreThe well-known British whisky and spirits retailer The Whisky Exchange just released an interesting set of two single cask bottlings from Kilchoman: a Tequila Cask Finish and a Mezcal Cask Finish. These are two sister casks, two bourbon barrels filled on 11 December 2012, which were transferred to a tequila and a mezcal cask on 6 November 2020 – after […]
Read moreSince a few days, a new Distillery Shop Exclusive edition is available in the Kilchoman Visitor Centre. This time, one of the still very rare mezcal cask finishings. Those who can’t make their way to Islay in winter and COVID times now at least have the chance to win the bottle in the current Kilchoman Club competition on the Kilchoman […]
Read moreCask No: 742/2013 Cask type: Bourbon Barrel, Mezcal Cask Finish Distillation Date: 18.10.2013 Bottling Date: 13.8.2021 Age: 7 yo Strength: 55,2 % abv Phenol level: 50 ppm Bottle volume: 0,7 l Market: Canada . The number of still very rare Kilchoman Mezcal Cask bottlings is slowly but surely growing. Following the just released fourth worldwide Mezcal Finish release for the […]
Read moreFrom 19 to 21 November, the International Whisky Festival was supposed to take place in The Hague. As festival releases, the organisers had two different Kilchoman single casks bottled: an STR cask finish and one of the still extremely rare mezcal cask finishings. However, due to the stricter Corona regulations in the Netherlands, the festival had to be cancelled at […]
Read moreAfter Kilchoman released its first Tequila Finish Single Cask as an Online Shop Exclusive on 21 April, the first Mezcal Finish Single Cask now follows for the well-known Edinburgh whisky shop Royal Mile Whiskies.As we have reported on several occasions, a change in the relevant SWA regulations in 2019 means that it is now allowed to use casks for whisky […]
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