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For the first time in its history, the well-known Dutch online spirits retailer drankdozijn released its own Kilchoman Single Cask bottling. Distilled on 11 July 2013, the whisky spent 7 years in a fresh ex-bourbon barrel to be bottled on 24 August 2020 at an alcohol strength of 56.9%. Rather unusually for Kilchoman retailer bottlings, the release was given its […]
Read moreThe Belgian Kilchoman importer The Nectar has just released two new Kilchoman single cask bottlings. Both are 100% islay releases, i.e. whiskies made “from barley to bottle” from Kilchoman’s own farm-grown barley. The cask 426/2013 has been matured for 7 years in a Bourbon barrel, the second one is a 5 year old PX Sherry full maturation in cask no. […]
Read moreThe well-known French spirits retailer and Kilchoman importer “La Maison du Whisky” has just launched an exclusive range of 5 Kilchoman single cask bottlings under the name “The Wills Family Cask Collection”. The series is based on the concept that each of the five members of the Kilchoman founders family selects a special favourite cask. The individual fillings are anything […]
Read moreToday at 13.00 GMT the 2nd round of the Kilchoman cask auction was started. As we reported earlier, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Kilchoman distillery – which was officially opened at Fèis Ìle 2005 – a total of 15 casks of Kilchoman New Make will be auctioned in batches of 5 casks until the end of […]
Read moreThere aren’t many casks left from which you haven’t been able to taste Kilchoman whisky matured in them. Now another gap has been filled in what Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills likes to call “experimental casks”. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the Austrian spirits retailer “Genuss am Gaumen” today presented a Calvados Finish Single Cask for the first time […]
Read moreThe German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen has announced a new Kilchoman range, developed exclusively for the German market. The Genesis series is intended to trace the production of Kilchoman whisky “from barley to bottle”. The eight stages of the journey, which takes at least 1130 days (as Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills puts it), from the harvesting of the barley, […]
Read moreKilchoman Distillery today announced the release of the 10th edition of the 100% Islay range. It will be available in the distillery’s online shop for £71.94 from September 16th and from whisky retailers worldwide starting next week. The 10th edition is a vatting of 39 ex-Bourbon Barrels and two Oloroso Sherry Butts, which matured for over 9 years in Kilchoman […]
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