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At the 3rd Kilchoman Online Tasting with Anthony and James Wills on 3 April 2020, the Madeira Finish Single Cask was one of the highlights. Shortly afterwards, Kilchoman released it as a single cask bottling, which can be purchased exclusively through the distillery’s online shop. At a time when the closed visitor centre means that distillery shop bottlings are not […]
Read moreAs the first limited release of the year 2020 the Kilchoman Distillery today announced the appearance of the new “Loch Gorm”. As is well known, “Loch Gorm” is the name given to the annually released sherry cask matured limited edition. The 2020 edition is made up of 21 oloroso sherry butts filled in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. The 15,500 […]
Read moreDuring the whisky fair DramFest 2020, which took place on 7 and 8 March in Christchurch, New Zealand, Anthony Wills from Kilchoman and Alex Bruce from Ardnamurchan presented a very special new bottling: KilchArd, a blended malt created from one whisky cask from each of the two distilleries. The idea for the bottling was born on a Saturday evening after […]
Read moreDue to a breakdown of the kiln Kilchoman produced an “unpeated” whisky from the farm’s own barley for a short time in late Summer 2012 (we reported). Since the “low wines and feints receiver” from which the spirit still is filled was not laboriously emptied in between the alternating distillation runs with peaty Port Ellen malt, however, the result was […]
Read moreAs one of the first new Kilchoman releases of 2020, Dutch importer Bresser & Timmer has just launched an STR-Finish Single Cask bottling.It has been matured in a fresh bourbon barrel (No. 628/2012) for nearly 7 years before being finished in an STR cask (Shaved, Toasted and Recharred ex-red wine hogshead) for over 5 month. After the “STR Cask Matured […]
Read moreThe very active whisky dealer Marco Bonn of the Brühler Whisky House, who has already distinguished himself as an independent bottler of some excellent whiskies, has now also chosen his own Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting. (For the concept of the Collaborative Vatting series see here). He decided on the previously rarely chosen variant with 12.5% sherry. The bottle can […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of this year’s special edition for Kilchoman Club members. This year’s edition is a vatting of 3 Bourbon Barrels and one Oloroso Sherry Butt, filled between October 2006 and December 2007. The 1,242 bottles with an alcohol content of 54.3% abv will be available in the online shop for 119.40 pounds on Thursday, 28 November […]
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