All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
The Kilchoman Open Day at this year’s Islay Festival Fèis Ìle 2024 will be Thursday 30 May. Today Kilchoman unveiled its programme for the day and presented the festival special bottling and two tasting packs for online tastings. The programme once again offers the tried-and-tested mix of special distillery and farm tours, masterclass tastings and numerous other events. With Machir […]
Read moreAt the end of 2018, Kilchoman launched the ‘Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting Programme’, which aimed 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 is 90% bourbon and 10% Oloroso sherry, retailers could choose one of four different variants with slightly altered […]
Read moreKilchoman has now announced the official market launch of a new globally distributed bottling – the Batch Strength Release – for 25 March. Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills has spoken on several occasions in the past of his vision to make a Kilchoman cask strength bottling permanently available to whisky lovers. These plans are now being realised in the form of […]
Read moreThe last two Kilchoman single cask releases for the spirits shop Mizunara from Hong Kong were already dedicated to the Japanese tea ceremony “Sado”. The bottling of cask no. 767/2011, released in early 2020, was dedicated to the host of the tea ceremony (“Sado – The Host”), while the bottling of cask no. 129/2013, released in early 2022, was dedicated […]
Read moreThis spring there will once again be a Kilchoman promotional tour across Europe. And this year it will be a tour of superlatives: a total of 20 countries will be visited in 10 weeks, covering a distance of 10,000 kilometres. The tour starts on 26 March in Switzerland and ends on 30 May at the Open Day of Fèis Ìle […]
Read moreThe 2023 Kilchoman Single Cask Release for Denmark has now been released a little late. This time it is a full bourbon cask maturation. The whisky was matured for 8 years in a fresh ex-bourbon barrel. The yield was 255 bottles with an alcohol content of 57.9% abv. The bottling is available at Whisky.dk for DKK 1099 per bottle. . […]
Read moreAfter the Netherlands and Sweden, a Triskele Casks release has now also appeared in Italy at the end of the year. Triskele Casks is the new name introduced this year for the Kilchoman Small Batch series. The Celtic symbol of the Triskele, which is known to adorn every Kilchoman bottle as a logo, symbolises, among other things, the unity of […]
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