With the release of “Rockside 11 years old”, the Kilchoman Distillery has now reached a new milestone in its history […]
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In July 2025, US importer ImpEx Beverages released a Kilchoman 100% Islay single cask for the famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, and the liquor store Hazel’s Beverage World in Boulder, Colorado. The bottling seems to have gone down well with guests at the Stanley Hotel, as the next Kilchoman bottling for the hotel has already followed, just under […]
Read moreWith the release of “Rockside 11 years old”, the Kilchoman Distillery has now reached a new milestone in its history that cannot be praised highly enough. Twenty years after its founding, there is finally a permanently available bottling produced exclusively from barley grown at Kilchoman’s Rockside Farm. The bottlings known as 100% Islay or “Single Farm Single Malts” – that […]
Read moreWine and Beyond, the largest liquor store chain in Western Canada, with outlets in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, has now released an exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling, finished in a Marsala wine cask. The whisky, which was bottled back in June 2025 – transport routes to Western Canada are evidently still long, even years after Brexit – was initially […]
Read more‘Be a bottler’ is a popular Fèis Ìle event at the Kilchoman Open Days, where visitors can bottle their very own Kilchoman whisky. In the past, this usually involved the standard Machir Bay release, but since Fèis Ìle 2018, the offer has been extended to single casks. At the recently concluded Fèis Ìle 2026, one of the rare Carcavelos finish […]
Read moreBottlings from the Rum cask are among the rarer releases from Kilchoman. And, remarkably, there has not been a single limited edition from this type of cask to date. This is undoubtedly due, first and foremost, to the fact that Anthony Wills has not, until now, been satisfied with the maturation of Kilchoman whisky in the casks at his disposal. […]
Read moreA new Small Batch Release has now been launched in Finland under the name Savu. This is already the fifth Small Batch Release for Finland. Following three bottlings in the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which began in 2019, a Bourbon Barrel Small Batch was released in 2022 under the name Turve. Finland is a very specific […]
Read moreIn 2025, the Kilchoman Distillery hosted the Shake the Farm Cocktail Competition for the second time. As in the previous year, the winner was allowed to select a cask of Kilchoman, which was subsequently bottled for the UK market. Fin Stewart, who won the 2025 competition with his cocktail Purpose, selected a Carcavelos Wine Cask Finish Single Cask, the world’s […]
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