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An exclusive Kilchoman Single Cask Release was bottled for the Roma Whisky Festival 2018, which took place on 3 and 4 March 2018. The whisky was matured for five and a half years in a fresh ex-bourbon barrel. . Cask No.: 471/2011 Cask type: 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel Date Filled: 11.8.2011 Date Bottled: 5.2.2018 Age: 6 yo Strength: 58,6 % […]
Read moreAfter malting and kilning and before mashing, the barley malt must be ground in a special grain mill after a certain resting period. Like many Scottish distilleries, Kilchoman uses a time-honoured Porteus Mill, which was bought second-hand from a brewery in England and installed in 2005 in a small separate room behind the malting floor, to the side of the […]
Read more14 February: Dr James Swan passed away On 14 February 2017, the renowned Scotch whisky expert Dr James Swan passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in Edinburgh at the age of 75. Jim Swan was a scientist and consultant who applied his unrivalled knowledge of whisky to the planning and commissioning of numerous new distilleries in Scotland and around the world. […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced that the 6th Edition of the annual Club Release will be available exclusively to Club members from noon (GMT) on Wednesday 6 December at £99.00 per bottle. Due to the low number of 1,241 bottles, sales are limited to one bottle per person. The 2017 Club Release is a vatting of five 10-year-old bourbon barrels at cask […]
Read moreWith the “Red Wine Cask Matured Edition” released today, 9 October 2017, Kilchoman now continues the series of limited wine cask maturations after the Port, Madeira and Sauternes wine releases of recent years. Distilled in 2012, the whisky was matured for five years in Red Wine casks from the Portuguese Douro Valley. Anthony Wills selected twenty casks for this release. […]
Read moreAs is well known, the major Kilchoman marketing tour of 2017 took place along the US West Coast. Starting in Southern California, George and Peter Wills, accompanied by Sam Filmus and Chris Uhde from the US importer ImpEx Beverages Inc – and, for the final leg of the tour, also by Anthony Wills – travelled over 1,500 miles northwards from […]
Read moreToday, 4th September, marks the official launch of the Vintage 2009 release. The 4th edition of the biennial series sets another new age record, it is the first 8 year old globally available release of a Kilchoman whisky. This year, it comes up with an innovation: while the first three editions were matured exclusively in bourbon barrels, this time Anthony […]
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