Kilchoman Ruby Port Quarter Cask Finish 491A/2013 for Verhaar released

In October 2021, the three Dutch spirits shops Verhaar, Van der Hejden and Woudenberg released a Ruby Port Quarter Cask Finish in their joint series The Whisky Trinity. Kilchoman’s Port Quarter Cask finishing process involves decanting the contents of a bourbon barrel into two Port Quarter Casks half the size of the bourbon barrel and maturing them for a few more months. The […]

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Kilchoman Calvados Double Cask Finish 136 & 137/2011 for The Distillery Shop

A new Distillery Exclusive Release – a Calvados Double Cask Finish – has been available at the distillery’s visitor centre for a few days. Double Cask Finish means that the contents of two bourbon barrels are finished in a 400 litre Calvados cask. Kilchoman has used this process several times in the past with Armagnac casks. Since the 400 litre […]

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Kilchoman Calvados Single Cask Finish for DrankDozijn “Ubhal”

The well-known Dutch online spirits retailer drankdozijn (D12) has now already released its fifth Kilchoman Single Cask Release. After “Blond” and “Auburn” at the end of 2020, “Lava” in the middle of 2021 and “Añejo” at the end of 2021, the current bottling was named “Ubhal”.It is one of the still quite rare Kilchoman Calvados cask finishings. Our readers who […]

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Kilchoman Casado Limited Release announced

In August 2020, Kilchoman installed two new vatting tanks (containers for marrying larger whisky releases) for maturation experiments, which are not made of stainless steel like the standard ones, but of wood from former Portuguese Red Wine casks (we reported). The vatting tanks were made according to Kilchoman’s specifications by the Dias cooperage from Portugal, which has been supplying Kilchoman […]

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Kilchoman Netherlands Small Batch No. 3

After a year’s break, the Dutch Kilchoman importer Bresser & Timmer has now released the Netherlands Small Batch No. 3. 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 , i.e. a whisky with 46% alcohol strength, which was previously matured for approx. 5 […]

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