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Kilchoman has now discontinued its series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which was only renamed Triskele Casks in mid-2023. Reason enough for us to honour the series, which was launched in July 2019, once again in detail in an overview article. Kilchoman pursued several objectives in 2019 with the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which […]
Read moreTo mark its 50th anniversary, German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen has now announced “The Sister Casks – A Maturation Journey”, a new series of Kilchoman single cask bottlings. The six releases consist of three pairs of “sister cask bottlings”, i.e. two casks that were filled on the same day and then stored side by side in the Kilchoman warehouses […]
Read moreFive new Kilchoman single cask bottlings have now been announced in the USA for 2024. The very active US importer ImpEx Beverages is continuing its renowned Cask Evolution Series with two new bottlings. No. 01/2024 is a 15-year-old Oloroso sherry cask full maturation. The whisky was initially matured for just over 12 years in an Oloroso sherry butt and was […]
Read moreWith the 13th edition of the 100% Islay Limited Release, Kilchoman returns to a pure bourbon cask maturation, as was the case with the early 100% Islay editions. It is a vatting of 44 predominantly first-fill ex-bourbon barrels that have matured for over 8 years in Kilchoman’s warehouses. For the first time in 2018 and then from 2020-2022, Oloroso sherry […]
Read moreIn 2019, the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), the trade body of the Scotch whisky industry, changed the regulations on cask maturation of Scotch whisky. In the course of the trend towards maturing or finishing whisky in increasingly exotic casks in order to offer consumers new taste experiences, demands for a relaxation of the previous rules, which many distilleries considered restrictive, […]
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