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The Polish Kilchoman importer M&P has now released another Kilchoman single cask bottling for its Cask Collection Club. This time it is an 8-year-old 100% Islay whisky from a bourbon cask. The whisky, which was produced entirely by Kilchoman ‘from barley to bottle’, matured for almost exactly eight years in an ex-Buffalo Trace bourbon barrel from 2016. It was bottled […]
Read moreKILCHOMAN DAY 2024 took place on Saturday 5 October at Palazzo Giureconsulti in Piazza del Duomo, Milan. Visitors to the event, which was dedicated entirely to the Kilchoman distillery, were able to purchase and taste Kilchoman limited editions, old bottlings, the ‘core range’ and the distillery’s new releases. Giuseppe Gervasio Dolci and Andrea Giannone, the founders of the Milano Whisky […]
Read moreOnce a year, the French spirits retailer and Kilchoman importer La Maison Du Whisky publishes a catalogue of exclusive LMDW bottlings of whisky, rum and other spirits, which is always outstanding in terms of scope and content. This year, ‘2025 Créations’ contains almost 170 spirits bottled exclusively for LMDW, from the categories of Scotch and world whisky, rum, cognac, armagnac, […]
Read moreThe latest Comraich release has been available in the first Comraich bars (an overview can be found here) for a few days now. Kilchoman had been thinking about the concept of Comraich bars in general and the special releases available only there, and has now made some changes. While the earlier Comraich releases, of which six were released on average […]
Read moreAs has always been the case since 2018, when the release date of the annual limited 100% Islay Release was moved to autumn, this year’s edition was also released on time in September. This year’s 14th edition is a vatting of ex-bourbon barrels and Oloroso sherry casks. Barley of the Publican variety was used, which was harvested at Rockside Farm […]
Read moreSince last week a new Distillery Exclusive Release is available in the Kilchoman Visitor Centre. This time it is not a single cask bottling but a 100% Islay Small Batch Release. The bottling was created from whiskies that were matured for ten years in ex-bourbon barrels (approx. 60%) and Oloroso sherry casks (approx. 40%). Like all 100% Islay whiskies, the […]
Read moreTo mark its 50th anniversary, German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen has now announced “The Sister Casks – A Maturation Journey”, a new series of Kilchoman single cask bottlings. The six releases consist of three pairs of “sister cask bottlings”, i.e. two casks that were filled on the same day and then stored side by side in the Kilchoman warehouses […]
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