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To mark its 20th anniversary, Kilchoman is holding a series of special events in a number of European countries in 2025, known as Kilchoman Days. Exclusive single cask releases are usually bottled for these events. For the third German Kilchoman Day, which took place on 26 September 2025 in Dortmund, a Port Quarter Cask was bottled, as was the case […]
Read moreIn February 2025, three German whisky shops – Whiskyhort from Oberhausen, Schlüter’s Geniessertreff from Wülfrath and Flickenschild from Itzehoe – jointly released a Kilchoman single cask bottling for the first time as part of the Whisky3 series. Now, with a slightly different combination of participating shops, another Kilchoman release has followed. Instead of Schlüter’s Geniessertreff, this time the third member […]
Read moreKilchoman announced today that it will once again be selling a limited number of private casks exclusively to Kilchoman Club members. In the early years of the distillery, Kilchoman sold numerous freshly filled casks to private individuals to raise much-needed capital for the distillery’s operations. This private cask programme was discontinued in 2007, and Kilchoman even endeavoured to buy back […]
Read moreAs it has done every autumn for several years now, French spirits retailer and Kilchoman importer La Maison Du Whisky has once again published a printed catalogue of exclusive LMDW bottlings of whisky, rum and other spirits in French and English. The first of over 170 bottlings from this year’s catalogue, entitled Itinéraires or Itineraries (‘Travel Routes’), are now available […]
Read moreA new Distillery Shop Exclusive bottling has been available at the Kilchoman Visitor Centre since 13 September. This time, it is the “Be a bottler” cask from this year’s Fèis Ìle. “Be a bottler” is a popular Fèis Ìle programme item at the Kilchoman Open Days, where visitors can fill their very own bottles of Kilchoman whisky. In the past, […]
Read moreThe highlight of the numerous celebrations marking Kilchoman’s 20th anniversary this year was undoubtedly the gala party held on Islay on 6 September. Kilchoman invited 230 guests, companions of the distillery over the last 20 years. Among them were importers from 35 countries worldwide, all shareholders, representatives of the companies José y Miguel Martín and Forsyths, many employees, from the […]
Read moreAfter Kilchoman announced the successful completion of this year’s barley harvest on the fields of Rockside Farm last week, this year’s 100% Islay Edition has now been released right on time in September. Since 2018, Kilchoman has moved the release date of its annual 100% Islay Release, made from the farm’s own barley, to autumn, linking it to the end […]
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