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With this bottling of a 10-year-old 100% Islay Kilchoman Whisky, the Canadian wine and spirits shop Kensington Wine Market from Calgary is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its owner Andrew Ferguson aka “The Scotch Guy” in the whisky business at the end of 2023. Andrew started at KWM in 2003 as an employee and expert in Scotch whisky and quickly […]
Read moreWith the 13th edition of the 100% Islay Limited Release, Kilchoman returns to a pure bourbon cask maturation, as was the case with the early 100% Islay editions. It is a vatting of 44 predominantly first-fill ex-bourbon barrels that have matured for over 8 years in Kilchoman’s warehouses. For the first time in 2018 and then from 2020-2022, Oloroso sherry […]
Read moreThe well-known whisky shop Royal Mile Whiskies from Edinburgh has now once again released a Kilchoman single cask bottling. It is a 100% Islay release, i.e. a whisky often referred to by Kilchoman as “Single Farm Single Malt”, which was produced entirely at Kilchoman from barley cultivation to bottling. The whisky was matured for over 10 years in an ex-bourbon […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of its new annual 100% Islay Limited Release. It is due to be available at retailers worldwide later this week. This year’s 13th release is a vatting of 44 ex-bourbon barrels that were matured for over 8 years in Kilchoman warehouses. The barley used was of the Publican variety, harvested at Rockside Farm in 2012, […]
Read moreA very special and in several respects rare Kilchoman whisky can now be found in the store of the well-known German independent bottler Anam na h-Alba: a 15 year old 100% Islay Private Cask. With its age of 15 years, this bottling is not only one of the oldest Kilchoman releases to date, but by far the oldest of a […]
Read moreThe German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen has now released Uniquely Islay – An Samhradh 2023, the sixth edition of the Kilchoman series distributed exclusively in Germany, following Uniquely Islay – An t-Earrach 2020, Uniquely Islay – An Geamhradh 2020, Uniquely Islay – An Samhradh 2021, Uniquely Islay – An t-Earrach 2022 and Uniquely Islay – An Geamhradh 2022. After […]
Read more1 June 2023 was Kilchoman Open Day at this year’s Islay Festival Fèis Ìle. In beautiful weather, the numerous visitors were once again able to enjoy a variety of programme items, live music, food and drink. And, of course, queued up for the always coveted Fèis Ìle special bottling. For this year’s edition, Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills had selected and […]
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