All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
Last year, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the distillery’s founding, Kilchoman released a strictly limited series of four different small-batch bottlings in high-quality decorative packaging – the 20th Anniversary Cask Series. This allowed whisky enthusiasts to trace the development of Kilchoman whisky up to an age of 18 years. Kilchoman has now announced the Family Cask Collection, a series […]
Read moreThroughout its history, Kilchoman has so far released only two whiskies that have been finished in Pinot Noir or Spätburgunder casks (this is how the ‘King of Red Wines’ is usually referred to in German). Both were released in the Netherlands: a Pinot Noir Small Batch at DrankDozijn in late 2021, and a single cask bottling for the spirits retailer […]
Read moreThe online shop alleswhisky.de has now launched a range of exclusive single-cask bottlings under its own brand, Glock Spirits. The series is called ‘Ebudae – Whisky at the Edge of Empire’ and pays homage to the era of the Roman Empire. ‘Ebudae’ was the Roman name for the Hebrides. That was where the Roman Empire ended and the wild Barbaricum […]
Read moreIn July 2025, US importer ImpEx Beverages released a Kilchoman 100% Islay single cask for the famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, and the liquor store Hazel’s Beverage World in Boulder, Colorado. The bottling seems to have gone down well with guests at the Stanley Hotel, as the next Kilchoman bottling for the hotel has already followed, just under […]
Read moreWith the release of “Rockside 11 years old”, the Kilchoman Distillery has now reached a new milestone in its history that cannot be praised highly enough. Twenty years after its founding, there is finally a permanently available bottling produced exclusively from barley grown at Kilchoman’s Rockside Farm. The bottlings known as 100% Islay or “Single Farm Single Malts” – that […]
Read moreWine and Beyond, the largest liquor store chain in Western Canada, with outlets in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, has now released an exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling, finished in a Marsala wine cask. The whisky, which was bottled back in June 2025 – transport routes to Western Canada are evidently still long, even years after Brexit – was initially […]
Read more‘Be a bottler’ is a popular Fèis Ìle event at the Kilchoman Open Days, where visitors can bottle their very own Kilchoman whisky. In the past, this usually involved the standard Machir Bay release, but since Fèis Ìle 2018, the offer has been extended to single casks. At the recently concluded Fèis Ìle 2026, one of the rare Carcavelos finish […]
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