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Following the reopening of the Visitor Centre, which was temporarily closed due to the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021, Kilchoman also resumed bottling Distillery Shop Exclusive releases. After a tequila finish, the second post-Corona bottling has now already appeared. This is an 11-year bourbon cask maturation. Distilled on 22 April 2010, the whisky was aged for over 11 years […]
Read moreWith the reopening of the visitor centre, which was temporarily closed for Corona reasons, Kilchoman also started bottling new Distillery Exclusive releases, i.e. single cask releases that can only be purchased at the Kilchoman visitor centre. Kilchoman fans who can’t or don’t want to go to Islay at the moment because of the still rather restrictive travel conditions will certainly […]
Read moreThe Aberdeen Whisky Shop has just released its first own Kilchoman Single Cask bottling. It is a full maturation in a 100% Islay PX cask. The bottling can be purchased for £92 from the online shop. Distilled in 2015 using the Rockside farm’s own Publican barley, the whisky was matured for over 6 years in a fresh Pedro Ximénez hogshead. […]
Read moreAfter the record figures of 2020 – in which Germany had by far the most single cask releases of any Kilchoman market in 2020 and almost every fifth Kilchoman single cask was bottled for Germany – it had become quite quiet on the German market. For almost 9 month not one Kilchoman Single Cask release appeared in Germany, which was […]
Read moreAfter some time, the very active Canadian importer Gold Medal Marketing Inc. Alberta recently released a new Kilchoman Single Cask bottling for Canada.Distilled in 2013 using the farm’s own barley from the 2012 harvest, the 100% Islay whisky was matured for 8 years in a bourbon barrel. . Cask No.: 15/2013 Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel Distillation Date: 24.1.2013 Bottling Date: […]
Read moreThe Polish Kilchoman importer M&P Pavlina has just released a new 10-year Kilchoman Single Cask Release in its Cask Collection Club series. These are the dates: . Cask No.: 320/2010 Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel Distillation Date: 29.6.2010 Bottling Date: 20.4.2021 Age: 10 yo Strength: 59,1 % Phenol level: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 234 Bottle volume: 0,7 l Market: Poland […]
Read moreA few days ago, one of the still rare Calvados bottlings was released for the Australian wine and spirits merchant Nicks Wine Merchants. By the way, this is the 5th Kilchoman Single Cask Release for the Australian market.The whisky has been matured in a fresh bourbon barrel for 7 years before being finished in a Calvados hogshead for 10 months. […]
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