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With the 13th edition of the 100% Islay Limited Release, Kilchoman returns to a pure bourbon cask maturation, as was the case with the early 100% Islay editions. It is a vatting of 44 predominantly first-fill ex-bourbon barrels that have matured for over 8 years in Kilchoman’s warehouses. For the first time in 2018 and then from 2020-2022, Oloroso sherry […]
Read moreOn 1 June, the Kilchoman Open Day of Fèis Ìle 2023, Kilchoman released it’s first 16-year-old Oloroso sherry cask bottling as a Distillery Exclusive Release. Following the first two 16-year-old Kilchoman releases in 2022, which were matured in bourbon barrels, Kilchoman bottled the penultimate remaining Oloroso sherry butt from 2006. As the last remaining 2006 sherry butt (no. 333/2006) is […]
Read more1 June 2023 was Kilchoman Open Day at this year’s Islay Festival Fèis Ìle. In beautiful weather, the numerous visitors were once again able to enjoy a variety of programme items, live music, food and drink. And, of course, queued up for the always coveted Fèis Ìle special bottling. For this year’s edition, Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills had selected and […]
Read moreThe annual Kilchoman Oloroso sherry cask bottling Loch Gorm is certainly one of the most popular Kilchoman bottlings. The 2023 edition represents a certain caesura in the development of the series and so we were very excited to try it. The composition of the Loch Gorm batches varied from year to year in terms of the age of the casks […]
Read moreAs part of the Kilchoman Online Tasting series, a tasting of the previous four Comraich releases with George and Peter Wills took place on 21 October 2021. These are the special bottlings for the bars of the same name, which can only be tasted there (and recently and certainly for a short time in the Kilchoman Visitor Centre) and do […]
Read moreThe British whisky dealer House of Malt recently released a new Kilchoman single cask bottling. This bottling of cask no. 38/2007 is the oldest single cask Kilchoman released to date, the whisky spent 13 years in a 1st Fill ex-Bourbon barrel (distilled on 21.2.2007, bottled on 28.2.2020). 236 bottles were bottled with an alcohol content of 53,3 % abv.As is […]
Read moreAt the 3rd Kilchoman Online Tasting with Anthony and James Wills on 3 April 2020, the Madeira Finish Single Cask was one of the highlights. Shortly afterwards, Kilchoman released it as a single cask bottling, which can be purchased exclusively through the distillery’s online shop. At a time when the closed visitor centre means that distillery shop bottlings are not […]
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