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The 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 members of the Kilchoman Club. The 8th edition is a vatting of three bourbon barrels and one Oloroso sherry butt filled between 11 October 2006 and 13 December 2007. The 1,242 bottles, with an alcohol content of 54.3%, will be available in the online shop on Thursday, 28 November […]
Read moreFollowing releases for Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, the first bottling for Great Britain has now been launched a few days ago in the new series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, with which Kilchoman aims to showcase its experimental side. Each of the individual batches has been specially created for individual countries and shows the influence of […]
Read moreAnd again we can announce the appearance of a new Distillery Shop Exclusive release on the shelves of the Visitor Centre. It is a Single Oloroso Sherry Butt, bottled after almost 12 years of maturation, i.e. one of the oldest sherry cask maturations Kilchoman has released to date. . Cask Number: 423/2007 Cask type: Oloroso Sherry Butt Date Filled: 26.1.2011 […]
Read moreThe latest and fifth edition of the biennial Vintage series is a vatting of 45 casks – 42 ex-Bourbon Barrels and 3 Oloroso Sherry Butts – all filled in 2010. The 9-year-old whisky, with an alcohol content of 48%, was bottled at Kilchoman without colouring and without chill filtration, as usual. The 15.000-bottle release will be launched on October 16th […]
Read moreIn autumn 2019, the first edition of a new Kilchoman series was released in Sweden with the “Sweden Exclusive Volume 1”. This is a bottling of an 8 year old bourbon barrel. . Cask No.: 175/2011 Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel Date Filled: 7.4.2011 Date Bottled: 4.9.2019 Age: 8 yo Strength: 56,5 % Phenol level: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 258 […]
Read moreA new Distillery Shop Exclusive Release has appeared at the Kilchoman Visitor Centre today, 17 September 2019: a Single Farm Single Malt – the name Kilchoman has recently given to its 100% Islay single cask bottlings – for the price of £82.50. It is a bottling of a fresh ex-bourbon barrel in which the whisky, made from the farm’s own […]
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