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Cask types: 70 % Bourbon Barrels / 5 % Oloroso Sherry Cask / 25 % Sauternes Hogshead Age: NAS Bottling Date: 2021 Strength: 49,1 % abv Phenol level: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 2.100 Bottle volume: 0,7 l Market: UK . Just in time for the festive season, the 3rd Kilchoman Small Batch for the UK was released this week. […]
Read moreAfter “Blond” and “Auburn” at the end of 2020 and “Lava” in the middle of 2021, “Añejo” is now the fourth Kilchoman single cask release from the well-known Dutch online spirits retailer drankdozijn (D12). The tradition of giving the D12 Kilchoman Single Cask bottlings artificial names and not simply writing “for DrankDozijn” on the label, as is usually the case, […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of the annual exclusive edition for members of the Kilchoman Club. Limited to one bottle per person, it will be available exclusively to Club Members from Wednesday, December 8th at 2pm Islay time. Always keen to select something special for the annual club release, this year Anthony Wills opted for a Small Batch of three […]
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 moreAnthony Wills had emphasised several times in the recent past that Kilchoman would like to focus more on “provenance” in the future when it comes to the wine casks used for whisky maturation. I.e. instead of using “anonymous” Sauternes or red wine casks, to indicate the exact origin, grape variety and producer. However, he also stressed that it is not […]
Read moreOn the occasion of its 20th anniversary, the French wine, beer and spirits chain V & B (Vins et bières) released a series of 9 exclusive spirits, including three very interesting Kilchoman single cask bottlings: a Sauternes Cask Finish, a Calvados Cask Finish and a Tequila Cask Finish. The bottlings from 2013 and 2014 are all 7 years old, with […]
Read moreKilchoman announced today that, as in 2020, there will be a “Christmas Live Tasting” with Anthony and George Wills as the last online tasting of the year on Tuesday 28 December from 7pm Islay time. The Tasting Pack contains the two Core Range whiskies Machir Bay and Sanaig and two pre-release samples, this time those of the Madeira Cask Matured […]
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