All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
This year, the Islay festival Fèis Ìle is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Due to the new Islay distilleries, the festival has now been extended to 10 days, with a particularly large number of interesting events announced. Today, Kilchoman unveiled its programme for the Kilchoman Open Day on Thursday 28 May, presented the festival special edition bottling and announced two tasting […]
Read moreAs its first limited release of 2026, Kilchoman has now announced a world first: the first full maturation of a Kilchoman whisky in Maury wine casks. Maury is a sweet fortified wine from the Roussillon region in southern France, produced mainly from Grenache Noir grapes. The production of this fortified wine is comparable to that of Port wine; apart from […]
Read moreIn January 2025, German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen released the world’s first Kilchoman Orange Wine Cask Finish for German Comraich bars. The whisky was enthusiastically received by Kilchoman fans. The Orange Wine cask gave the Kilchoman distillate a very special, sweet fruit note that cannot be compared to red or white wine cask maturation. No further Kilchoman Orange Wine […]
Read moreDuring the ongoing Kilchoman European Tour 2026, the Kilchoman Land Rover with Emma McHarrie and Peter Wills will stop at the renowned retailer Flickenschild – Whisky & Cigars in Itzehoe on 14 March. Itzehoe will be the seventh of nine German tour locations. For the event Flickenschild announced an exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling. This is one of the Ruby […]
Read moreThe US importer of Kilchoman, ImpEx Beverages, has now announced the first two bottlings of 2026 in its renowned Cask Evolution series. The two single cask bottlings are an Oloroso Sherry and a Ruby Port full maturation. ImpEx Cask Evolution No. 01/2026 was matured for over 10 years in an Oloroso Sherry cask. No. 02/2026, on the other hand, is […]
Read moreAfter no Kilchoman European Tour took place last year – Kilchoman celebrated its 20th anniversary with a variety of individual events, including the Kilchoman Days – the Kilchoman Land Rover, with a brand new look, will once again set off on a journey across Europe this year. And this will be a tour of superlatives: in ten weeks, from 20 […]
Read moreIn August 2025, shortly before a historic milestone in the history of the Kilchoman distillery – the 20th anniversary of the first cask being filled on 14 December 2005 – Kilchoman launched a competition offering whisky lovers the unique chance to win the very first bottle of a 20-year-old Kilchoman, drawn directly from cask no. 1 (as we reported). The […]
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