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The well-known Canadian wine and spirits shop Kensington Wine Market in Calgary has now released another exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling following a brief hiatus of two and a half years. This is already the 13th Kilchoman release from Kensington Wine Market, making the shop the world leader in Kilchoman single cask releases. This new bottling is a whisky 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 […]
Read moreThe latest edition of Loch Gorm, Kilchoman’s annual Oloroso sherry cask matured limited release, is now available. As is well known, the bottling is named after the largest freshwater loch on Islay, located near the distillery, whose dark, murky waters are said to be reflected in the rich copper tones of the sherry-matured Loch Gorm. The annual Loch Gorm editions […]
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