All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
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 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 moreThe well-known whisky shop Potstill Wien, which is also the Kilchoman importer for Austria, has once again released an exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling for Austria. This is a 10-year-old 100% Islay whisky from an ex-bourbon barrel. The barley of the Publican variety was grown on Rockside Farm in 2014 and processed in 2015. The bottles cost €109, but unfortunately […]
Read moreAs it has done at the end of every year since 2012, Kilchoman has now announced this year’s 14th exclusive bottling for members of the Kilchoman Club. Following last year’s nine-year-old single cask bottling of an Oloroso sherry butt, Anthony Wills and Robin Bignal have once again selected an Oloroso sherry butt, only this time it is significantly older at […]
Read moreIn July 2025, US importer ImpEx Beverages had Kilchoman bottle a 100% Islay Release single cask for the famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, and the liquor store Hazel’s Beverage World in Boulder, Colorado. This whisky was distilled in 2014 from the farm’s own barley and produced entirely at Kilchoman, ‘from barley to bottle’, before being matured for almost […]
Read moreA year ago, the German importer of Kilchoman, Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen, launched a single cask bottling 12 yo 100% Islay Unpeated Sherry Butt. Despite a hefty price tag and some negative reviews on social media – some whisky lovers clearly felt duped by the quite distinct peaty notes in a whisky aggressively marketed as unpeated – the bottling sold out […]
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