All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
In 2019, Kilchoman began using Ruby Port Quarter Casks for whisky maturation for the first time. Not only were these 100-liter casks used to finish the famous Am Bùrach release, which was the result of an accident, but from 2020 onwards, two dozen Ruby Port Quarter Cask Finishings of whiskies previously matured in Bourbon Barrels were released worldwide. This year, […]
Read moreAt the end of 2025, Polish Kilchoman importer M&P Pavlina once again released a Kilchoman single cask bottling in its Cask Collection Club series. The bottling, which hit the market in early December, is one of the still relatively rare Kilchoman finishes in White Port casks. Distilled in October 2016, the whisky was first matured for almost seven years in […]
Read moreThe well-known whisky shop Potstill Wien, which is also the Kilchoman importer for Austria, has once again released an exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling for Austria. This is a 10-year-old 100% Islay whisky from an ex-bourbon barrel. The barley of the Publican variety was grown on Rockside Farm in 2014 and processed in 2015. The bottles cost €109, but unfortunately […]
Read moreAs it has done at the end of every year since 2012, Kilchoman has now announced this year’s 14th exclusive bottling for members of the Kilchoman Club. Following last year’s nine-year-old single cask bottling of an Oloroso sherry butt, Anthony Wills and Robin Bignal have once again selected an Oloroso sherry butt, only this time it is significantly older at […]
Read moreCask No.: 644/2014 Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel Date Filled: 20.8.2014 Date Bottled: 14.7.2025 Age: 10 yo Strength: 52,8 % abv Level of phenols in malted barley: approx. 20 ppm Barley variety: Publican (harvested in 2013) Bottle volume: 0,7 l Market: USA . In July 2025, US importer ImpEx Beverages had Kilchoman bottle a 100% Islay Release single cask for the […]
Read moreTwo Ruby Port Quarter Cask bottlings were released as exclusive single cask releases at the second German Kilchoman Day on 2 August 2025 in Nuremberg and at the third German Kilchoman Day on 26 September 2025 in Dortmund. Now, the last of these anniversary events marking the distillery’s 20th anniversary followed suit: for Kilchoman Day in Edinburgh, which took place […]
Read moreAfter the German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen released the world’s first Kilchoman bottling from a ‘Muscatel cask’, or more precisely a Moscatel de Setúbal wine cask, in May 2025 as part of its Uniquely Islay Series – An t-Earrach 2025, another bottling from this type of cask has now been released in Germany. The new single cask release was […]
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