Timeline 2019
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Read moreBrühler Whiskyhouse now with Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting
The very active whisky dealer Marco Bonn of the Brühler Whisky House, who has already distinguished himself as an independent bottler of some excellent whiskies, has now also chosen his own Kilchoman Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting. (For the concept of the Collaborative Vatting series see here). He decided on the previously rarely chosen variant with 12.5% sherry. The bottle can […]
Read moreNew type of snail named after Kilchoman
As reported in the social media today, Hungarian zoologist and obvious Kilchoman fan Barna Páll-Gergely has identified a land snail found in North Vietnam in 2013 by researchers from the Natural History Museum London as a new species and named it after the Kilchoman distillery. The new land snail species is named Entadella kilchomani and reaches a diameter of 3.5 […]
Read moreClub Release 2019 announced
Kilchoman today announced the release of this year’s special edition for Kilchoman Club members. This year’s edition is a vatting of 3 Bourbon Barrels and one Oloroso Sherry Butt, filled between October 2006 and December 2007. The 1,242 bottles with an alcohol content of 54.3% abv will be available in the online shop for 119.40 pounds on Thursday, 28 November […]
Read moreUK Small Batch No. 1: Bourbon / Sherry / Madeira
Following the small batch releases for Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, a release for Great Britain has now been launched within the new “Small Batch Series for Selected Markets”. For the concept of the new Small Batch series see here. For the “UK Small Batch No. 1” a Madeira-Hogshead was added to the starting point of a Machir Bay […]
Read more11 yo Sherry Cask 423/2007 Distillery Shop Exclusive
And again we can announce the appearance of a new Distillery Shop Exclusive release on the shelves of the Visitor Centre. It is a Single Oloroso Sherry Butt, bottled after almost 12 years of maturation, i.e. one of the oldest sherry cask maturations Kilchoman has released to date. Cask Number: 423/2007 Cask type: Oloroso Sherry Butt Distillation Date: 26.1.2011 Bottling […]
Read moreCarol-Ann MacTaggart new Visitor Centre Manager
After the farewell of Nicole Lindsay, who managed the Kilchoman Visitor Centre from 2017 to 2019 (we reported), a new manager has now taken up work after exactly one month. Carol-Ann MacTaggart, who comes from Bowmore, attended Islay High School there and worked at Lochside Hotel in Bowmore from 2005-2013. She then worked as Assistant Manager at the Bridgend Hotel, […]
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