All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
In August 2025, shortly before a historic milestone in the history of the Kilchoman distillery – the 20th anniversary of the first cask being filled on 14 December 2005 – Kilchoman launched a competition offering whisky lovers the unique chance to win the very first bottle of a 20-year-old Kilchoman, drawn directly from cask no. 1 (as we reported). The […]
Read moreThe restaurant and whisky shop Toilasor in Livigno, Italy, released this exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling at the beginning of January 2026. This is another STR Cask Matured / New Oak Finish bottling, of which almost a dozen had already been released in 2024 and 2025. However, this bottling is special in several ways. During his finishing experiment with new […]
Read moreIn 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 moreIn July 2025, US importer ImpEx Beverages had Kilchoman bottle a 100% Islay Release single cask for the famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, and the liquor store Hazel’s Beverage World in Boulder, Colorado. This whisky was distilled in 2014 from the farm’s own barley and produced entirely at Kilchoman, ‘from barley to bottle’, before being matured for almost […]
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