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There is a new exclusive bottling for the Kilchoman Distillery Shop to report: a 12-year-old Calvados Single Cask Finish has been available there since 20 November 2024. The whisky was first matured for more than nine years in a bourbon barrel and then finished in a Calvados cask for more than three years. This is the longest Calvados finishing period […]
Read moreAfter a Sauternes and a Port Cask finish in 2022, the Dutch beverage chain Gall & Gall has now released another Kilchoman single cask bottling in July 2023. This time it is a Calvados Cask Finish. The whisky was first matured in an ex-bourbon barrel for over six years and was then finished in a Calvados cask for over two […]
Read moreJust in time for Fèis Ìle, a new Distillery Exclusive Release has been available in the Kilchoman visitor centre since yesterday. This is sure to meet with great interest among visitors to the distillery, as it is a world first: the first Kilchoman Calvados Full Maturation. Since the release of the first Kilchoman Calvados Finish bottling on 24 September 2020, […]
Read moreThe basis of the whiskies in the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which began in 2019, is an already finished Machir Bay vatting or Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting , i.e. a whisky with 46% alcohol strength, which was previously matured for approx. 5 years predominantly in bourbon barrels and 5-15% in oloroso sherry casks. This vatting is […]
Read moreIt seems to become a nice tradition: as in the past two years, Kilchoman will again host a “Christmas Online Tasting” with Anthony and George Wills on Wednesday 28 December from 6pm UK time. The tasting pack will include the two Core Range whiskies Machir Bay and Loch Gorm, plus two samples of new bottlings, this time a Calvados Double […]
Read moreThe award-winning South African whisky shop Whisky Brother in Johannesburg celebrates its 10th anniversary next month. To mark the occasion, it has now released an exclusive Kilchoman Single Cask bottling. The bottling, which is 10 years old for obvious reasons, showcases, in Whisky Brother’s words, “one of our favourite distilleries that has been part of our whisky journey over the […]
Read moreA new Distillery Exclusive Release – a Calvados Double Cask Finish – has been available at the distillery’s visitor centre for a few days. Double Cask Finish means that the contents of two bourbon barrels are finished in a 400 litre Calvados cask. Kilchoman has used this process several times in the past with Armagnac casks. Since the 400 litre […]
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