All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
Today, May 28th, the Kilchoman Open Day at the virtual Fèis Ìle 2020, was not only marked by a multitude of excellent online contributions from the distillery, but also by the official sales launch of the second Limited Release of 2020: Am Bùrach. Behind the mysterious sounding name is the story of an accident. In 2014, an operating error on […]
Read moreAfter Kilchoman had released an exclusive online shop release in mid-April with a Madeira Finish Single Cask, today, May 12th, with a Cognac Finish Single Cask, the second highlight from Kilchoman’s 3rd online tasting with Anthony and James Wills on April 3rd, 2020, followed. Our hope expressed when announcing the Madeira Finish Single Cask that it would not be the […]
Read moreAt 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 peated 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 months. After the “STR Cask Matured […]
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