All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
At the wine and spirits shop Kensington Wine Market in Calgary, you can now pre-order a new Kilchoman single cask bottling for the Canadian Prairie provinces. This is an ten-and-a-half-year-old, 100% Islay Madeira cask maturation, produced from the ‘Publican’ barley variety harvested at Rockside Farm in 2014 and processed in 2015. The bottles cost $179.99. . Cask No.: 768/2015 Cask […]
Read moreIn October 2024, Kilchoman released its first limited edition cask strength bottling of Sanaig. This was in response to the increasingly calls from Kilchoman fans, following several highly popular cask strength releases of Machir Bay, for the second General Release of Sanaig to also be bottled at cask strength. This 2024 Sanaig Cask Strength release was a huge success and […]
Read moreSince 2012, the Kilchoman Distillery has released an exclusive bottling every autumn for members of the Kilchoman Club, which you can join online. Kilchoman’s founder, Anthony Wills, has often emphasised in the past that he always strives to select a very special bottling for club members each year. This year, for the first time, Kilchoman is offering club members the […]
Read moreThe Japanese Kilchoman importer, Whisk-e Ltd, Japan, released new Kilchoman single cask bottlings for the Japanese market a few days ago. These include a 13-year-old Calvados Cask Finish, in which the whisky, after maturing for a good nine years in a bourbon barrel, underwent a Calvados finish lasting over 40 months (!), as well as a 10-year-old 100% Islay whisky […]
Read moreTwo new single cask bottlings have been available to purchase from the Kilchoman Online Shop for the past few days. One is an 8-year-old Marsala wine cask finish, and the other a 15-year-old fully matured in a Bourbon cask. Kilchoman has thus resumed sales of Online Shop Exclusive Releases. Introduced during the COVID pandemic as a replacement for the Distillery […]
Read moreLe comptoir Irlandais, founded in 1987, specialises in products associated with the Celtic way of life. The well-known retail chain, which opened its 55th shop in April 2026, offers fine foods and clothing as well as beer and spirits, mainly from Ireland and Scotland. The whisky range in particular has been massively expanded in recent years; there are now over […]
Read moreKilchoman has now announced the launch of its next limited release: the Cognac Cask Matured 2026 Edition. Since 2014, Kilchoman has been releasing, between one and three times a year, fully matured whiskies from so-called ‘experimental cask types’ – that is, casks that most distilleries would normally use for finishing. The first Cognac Matured Limited Release was launched in 2023; […]
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