All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
At the second German Kilchoman Day on 2 August 2025 in Nuremberg and the third German Kilchoman Day on 26 September 2025 in Dortmund, two bottlings from Ruby Port Quarter Casks were released as exclusive single cask releases. The German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen sold another cask to Weinhof Brettel from Mitwitz in Upper Franconia, where the bottling has […]
Read moreUntil 2024, Kilchoman had exclusively used Ruby Port and LBV Port (Late Bottle Vintage) casks for its Port Cask maturations and finishings. The first White Port Finishings appeared in mid-2025, followed in October 2025 by the world’s first Tawny Port release listed here. The whisky was bottled for Gourmétage, a East German delicatessen chain with specialty stores in Leipzig, Dresden, […]
Read moreOn 11 and 12 October 2025, the first German edition of the internationally renowned Whisky Live fair took place in Hamburg. For this event, the organiser Kirsch Import released numerous exclusive bottlings under the name The Awakening Series, which were truly outstanding in terms of both quantity and quality. Among them was the Kilchoman single cask bottling listed here, a […]
Read moreAs it has done every October since 2023, Italian Kilchoman importer Beija-Flor has now released the latest edition of its “Italian Cities” series of Kilchoman single cask bottlings. Following “Milan” (2023) and “Rome” (2024), the third edition of the series is dedicated to the city of Florence. It is a 100% Islay bottling matured for 9 years in a fresh […]
Read moreThe British Shop, Germany’s largest online retailer of British fashion, homewear, perfume and specialities, released an exclusive Kilchoman bottling for the first time in its history in the summer of 2025. And this was something very special, as it was the world’s first Kilchoman single cask release from a Fino sherry cask. Distilled in 2014, the whisky was aged for […]
Read moreTo mark its 20th anniversary, Kilchoman is holding a series of special events in a number of European countries in 2025, known as Kilchoman Days. Exclusive single cask releases are usually bottled for these events. For the third German Kilchoman Day, which took place on 26 September 2025 in Dortmund, a Port Quarter Cask was bottled, as was the case […]
Read moreIn February 2025, three German whisky shops – Whiskyhort from Oberhausen, Schlüter’s Geniessertreff from Wülfrath and Flickenschild from Itzehoe – jointly released a Kilchoman single cask bottling for the first time as part of the Whisky3 series. Now, with a slightly different combination of participating shops, another Kilchoman release has followed. Instead of Schlüter’s Geniessertreff, this time the third member […]
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