All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
Like last year, the Islay Festival Fèis Ìle can only be held online this year due to the Corona pandemic. Kilchoman plans for this again a variety of events about which will be informed in detail in the coming days. Today, this year’s Fèis Ìle special bottling and the tasting packs for the three online tastings planned on Kilchoman Day, […]
Read moreOn 10 and 11 April 2021, the Taipei Whisky Taste 2021 whisky fair took place in Taiwan, where Kilchoman also presented itself alongside numerous other exhibitors. For this fair, Kilchoman released a special bottling, a 7 year old PX Finish Single Cask. The whisky was first matured in a bourbon barrel and then finished in a Pedro Ximénez Sherry Hogshead. […]
Read moreIt has become almost a nice tradition that Kilchoman offers some of the single casks, which were tasted at the online tastings held regularly since the Corona restrictions, afterwards as a bottling in the online store of the distillery for sale. With the Ruby Port Quarter Cask Finish tasted at the last online tasting with George and James Wills on […]
Read moreAs usual, the series of annual limited releases will be opened again this year with Loch Gorm, the Kilchoman whisky matured exclusively in oloroso sherry casks. At the Kilchoman online tasting on 18 February, the whisky could already be tasted in advance and interesting information about this year’s edition could be learned. The 2021 edition is a vatting of 24 […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the second online tasting of 2021 with George and James Wills for 8 April from 7pm Islay time. As with the 1st online tasting of the year, the tasting pack includes the two Core Range whiskies Machir Bay and Sanaig and two pre-release samples of 2021, this time the PX Matured release and a Ruby Port Quarter […]
Read moreCask Number: 228/2011 Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel, STR Hogshead Finish Distillation Date: 12.5.2011 Bottling Date: 16.1.2021 Age: 9 yo Strength: 54,7 % abv Phenol level: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 246 Bottle volume: 0,7 l Market: Norway . Marius Vestnes, who gave this release its name, is the director of the Norwegian Kilchoman importer. The whisky for this […]
Read moreCask Number: 129/2013 Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel, PX Sherry Finish Date Filled: 7.3.2013 Date Bottled: 26.11.2020 Age: 7 yo Strength: 56,6 % abv Phenol level: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 254 Bottle volume: 0,7 l Market: Hong Kong . This single cask release for the Hong Kong spirits shop Mizunara, released at the beginning of 2021, has been […]
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