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After the construction work on the new still house was finished in summer with the installation of a panorama window (we reported), there are new construction works to announce again. The old kiln building, which will continue to be used as a malt warehouse, has been given a new extension. As can be seen on the photo below, a popular […]
Read moreA new Distillery Shop Exclusive Release has appeared at the Kilchoman Visitor Centre today, 17 September 2019: a Single Farm Single Malt – the name Kilchoman has recently given to its 100% Islay single cask bottlings – for the price of £82.50. It is a bottling of a fresh ex-bourbon barrel in which the whisky, made from the farm’s own […]
Read moreLovers of the 100% Islay range – which includes virtually all Kilchomania members – will be particularly pleased with the announcement of the latest release for 12 September 2019. The 9th edition is a vatting of 43 ex-bourbon barrels matured for over 9 years in Kilchoman warehouses. This is whisky made from malt from the 2007 and 2009 barley harvests. […]
Read moreAs we have reported on several occasions, this year’s Kilchoman marketing tour will take place from late September to early December, visiting several Asian countries and the Midwestern United States. . . Kilchoman has now announced the detailed plans for the second part, the US Midwest Tour: We kick things off in Chicago, at Binny’s, N Marcey Street on Thursday […]
Read moreKilchoman has now announced its major annual promotional tour, which this year will be themed ‘Meat the Peat’. James and Peter Wills will be covering a particularly long distance in 2019, and have swapped the distillery’s Land Rover for more modern means of transport – the fact that Peter crashed the vehicle during last year’s European tour is, reportedly, completely […]
Read moreThe STR Cask Matured Release, launched in May 2019, has now been named ‘Best in Show’ at the Whiskies of the World Awards. Twenty-four of the world’s most renowned spirits experts judged it to be the best whisk(e)y out of hundreds of entries from Scotland, the US and around the world. The WOW award followed a Score of 91 points […]
Read moreAfter a Madeira Finish single cask bottling was released for the first time in May this year as a Distillery Shop Exclusive Release, a Madeira Cask Finish is again available for purchase at the Kilchoman Visitor Centre from today, 28 August 2019. The bottling of cask no. 179/2012 spent 6 years in a 1st Fill Buffalo Trace Bourbon barrel and […]
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