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Kilchoman today announced the release of the annual exclusive edition for members of the Kilchoman Club. Limited to one bottle per person, it will be available exclusively to Club Members from Wednesday, December 8th at 2pm Islay time. Always keen to select something special for the annual club release, this year Anthony Wills opted for a Small Batch of three […]
Read moreKilchoman announced today the next online tasting. The “Christmas Live Tasting” will start on 28 December at 6pm. The Tasting Pack this time contains two Core Range whiskies, the 2020 Club Release and a Single Cask bottling. Specifically, these are: Machir Bay – 46% Sanaig – 46% Club Release 9th Edition- 56.2%, vatting of 4 fresh Oloroso Sherry Hogsheads which […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of its annual exclusive edition for members of the Kilchoman Club. The 9th edition, limited to one bottle per person, will be available for purchase on the Kilchoman website from 2pm (UK time) on Wednesday 18 November 2020. Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills is always keen to bottle something special, new or not yet so common […]
Read moreFebruary: with the “Machir Bay 2012”, Kilchoman launches its first General Release. Unlike the previous limited releases, it will be permanently available in all Kilchoman markets. The edition is named after a bay not far from the distillery with one of Islays most beautiful sandy beaches. Bottled in batches, they plan to increase the age of the whiskies contained from […]
Read moreThe average cask filling rate is now about 21 casks per week, mostly fresh ex-bourbon barrels from the Buffalo Trace Distillery, but still sherry butts, too. February: Robin Bignal, who had already worked part time at Kilchoman from August 2010 to January 2013, becomes a full time member of the production team after Gavin Douglas had left Kilchoman. First week […]
Read moreJanuary: two vatting tanks are installed in Warehouse No. 1. In the future they will be used to marry the barrels for the bigger editions, like “Machir Bay” and “100% Islay”, before bottling. Previously, the company relied on the help of Bruichladdich, where the barrels were emptied and married, and then returned to the Kilchoman bottling hall in large plastic […]
Read moreThe “Machir Bay” appears from now on without year specification. Named after the bay not far from the distillery with one of Islay’s most beautiful sandy beaches, the batch-bottled release was labelled with the year of bottling from 2012 to 2014. During this period, the age of the whiskies contained in the bottle increased from year to year. From 2015 […]
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