All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
Yesterday, 30 May, the Kilchoman Open Day at Fèis Ìle 2019, was again one of the highlights of the year for Kilchoman fans. Once again, a tried and tested mix of tours, tastings, food and drink was on offer. Among the many highlights: a masterclass tasting “Founders Cask” with Anthony Wills and the well-known whisky author Dave Broom, where one […]
Read moreJust in time for tomorrow’s Kilchoman Open Day at Fèis Ìle 2019, a new Distillery Shop Exclusive Release is available in the Kilchoman Visitor Centre as of today. It is a bottling of an Oloroso Sherry Butt, in which the whisky was matured for nine years. “Single Farm Single Malt” is the name Kilchoman now occasionally uses for bottlings of […]
Read moreAs of today, a new Distillery Shop Exclusive Release is available at the Kilchoman Visitor Centre. It is one of the still quite rare Madeira cask finish bottlings. The whisky was first matured for 7 years in a 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel and was then finished for 8 months in a fresh Madeira cask. The yield was 245 bottles with […]
Read moreFor May 8, 2019, Kilchoman announces the release of a completely new limited bottling, the “STR Cask Matured”. The STR Cask – the letters stand for Shaving, Toasting and Re-Charring – is an invention of James Swan, who unfortunately passed away far too early. As an expert and consultant, Swan had a decisive influence on the planning and operation of […]
Read moreWith the new Distillery Shop Exclusive bottling released yesterday, 16 April, Kilchoman has once again set a new age record. After a 12 year old bottling had been released for the first time in August / September 2018 for the visitor shop, the bottling listed here raised the age record to almost 13 years. The yield of Bourbon Barrel No. […]
Read moreAs in previous years, the series of annual limited releases begins with the Loch Gorm, Kilchoman whisky mataured exclusively in Oloroso sherry casks. Anthony Wills has selected 20 Oloroso Sherry Butts from 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 for this year’s edition. This means that for the first time, 12 and 13 year old casks are also included. The circulation […]
Read moreWith the “Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting Programme”, Kilchoman launched a new product line a few weeks ago, that aims to give local retailers the opportunity to create personalised bottlings of the distillery´s flagship expression Machir Bay. Deviating from the normal cask composition of Machir Bay, which consists of 90% bourbon and 10% Oloroso sherry cask-matured whisky, the respective retailer can […]
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