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A 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 moreAfter the world’s first Kilchoman Marsala cask finish was released as a Distillery Shop Exclusive Release in March 2022, another of the still extremely rare Marsala finishings is now available at the distillery’s visitor centre for £92.40. The whisky was first matured in a fresh ex-bourbon barrel for more than 8 years before being finished in a Marsala hogshead for […]
Read moreAs the latest Distillery Shop Exclusive Release, the world’s first Kilchoman Marsala cask finish is now available at the distillery’s visitor centre for £102. The whisky for the first bottling from this cask type was first matured for 8 years in an ex-bourbon barrel and was then finished for 7 months in a Marsala Hogshead. On our last Kilchomania.com Islay […]
Read moreSince a few days, a new Distillery Shop Exclusive edition is available in the Kilchoman Visitor Centre. This time, one of the still very rare mezcal cask finishings. Those who can’t make their way to Islay in winter and COVID times now at least have the chance to win the bottle in the current Kilchoman Club competition on the Kilchoman […]
Read moreFollowing the reopening of the Visitor Centre, which was temporarily closed due to the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021, Kilchoman also resumed bottling Distillery Shop Exclusive releases. After a tequila finish, the second post-Corona bottling has now already appeared. This is an 11-year bourbon cask maturation. Distilled on 22 April 2010, the whisky was aged for over 11 years […]
Read moreFollowing the reopening of the visitor centre, which was temporarily closed due to the COVID pandemic, Kilchoman has now also resumed the bottling of Distillery Shop Exclusive releases. We hope, of course, that the series of Online Shop Exclusives introduced in the meantime will nevertheless continue. Not only because it is still extremely difficult to get to Islay at the […]
Read moreIt has become almost a nice tradition that Kilchoman offers some of the single casks, which were tasted at the online tastings held regularly since the Corona restrictions, afterwards as a bottling in the online store of the distillery for sale. With the Ruby Port Quarter Cask Finish tasted at the last online tasting with George and James Wills on […]
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