In 2019, Kilchoman began using Ruby Port Quarter Casks for whisky maturation for the first time. Not only were these 100-liter casks used to finish the famous Am Bùrach release, which was the result of an accident, but from 2020 onwards, two dozen Ruby Port Quarter Cask Finishings of whiskies previously matured in Bourbon Barrels were released worldwide. This year, […]

At the end of 2025, Polish Kilchoman importer M&P Pavlina once again released a Kilchoman single cask bottling in its Cask Collection Club series. The bottling, which hit the market in early December, is one of the still relatively rare Kilchoman finishes in White Port casks. Distilled in October 2016, the whisky was first matured for almost seven years in […]

Two Ruby Port Quarter Cask bottlings were released as exclusive single cask releases at the second German Kilchoman Day on 2 August 2025 in Nuremberg and at the third German Kilchoman Day on 26 September 2025 in Dortmund. Now, the last of these anniversary events marking the distillery’s 20th anniversary followed suit: for Kilchoman Day in Edinburgh, which took place […]

From 14 to 16 November, The Hague once again hosted the International Whisky Festival. To mark the occasion, two truly exceptional Kilchoman single cask bottlings were released: one of the still very rare 18-year-old Kilchoman releases and, somewhat surprisingly for insiders, another STR Cask Matured / New Oak Finish bottling. After the first 18-year-old Kilchoman was released in Japan at […]

After the German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen released the world’s first Kilchoman bottling from a ‘Muscatel cask’, or more precisely a Moscatel de Setúbal wine cask, in May 2025 as part of its Uniquely Islay Series – An t-Earrach 2025, a bottling from a Muscatel Blanc Barrique has now been released in Germany. The new single cask release was […]