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The 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 one 400 litre Calvados cask. Kilchoman has used this process several times in the past with Armagnac casks. Since the 400 litre […]
Read moreThe well-known Dutch online spirits retailer drankdozijn (D12) has now already released its fifth Kilchoman Single Cask Release. After “Blond” and “Auburn” at the end of 2020, “Lava” in the middle of 2021 and “Añejo” at the end of 2021, the current bottling was named “Ubhal”.It is one of the still quite rare Kilchoman Calvados cask finishings. Our readers who […]
Read moreThe Chinese Kilchoman importer SMCC (Single Malt Club China) announced today the release of the “China Small Batch No. 3”. The basis of the whiskies of the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets launched in 2019, with which Kilchoman aims to showcase its experimental side, is an already finished Machir Bay vatting or Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting, i.e. […]
Read moreA few days ago, one of the still rare Calvados bottlings was released for the Australian wine and spirits merchant Nicks Wine Merchants. By the way, this is the 5th Kilchoman Single Cask Release for the Australian market.The whisky has been matured in a fresh bourbon barrel for 7 years before being finished in a Calvados hogshead for 10 months. […]
Read moreCask Number: 217/2013 Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel, Calvados Cask Finish Distillation Date: 14.8.2013 Bottling Date: 28.9.2020 Age: 7 yo Strength: 55,8 % Phenol level: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 261 Bottle volume: 0,7 l Market: Israel . This single cask release was bottled for Omef Ganor, owner of the Bar Mozner and Travitz Bar in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Distilled on 14 […]
Read moreCask Number: 277/2012 Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel, Calvados Cask Finish Date Filled: 17.5.2012 Date Bottled: 25.9.2020 Age: 8 yo Finishing period: 8 months Strength: 56,6% abv Level of phenols in malted barley: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 217 Bottle volume: 0,75 l Bottle Code: none Barcode: 8 92032 04523 0 Market: USA . The US Kilchoman importer ImpEx Beverages released […]
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