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Once 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 […]
Read moreWith 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 […]
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