All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
A good year ago, the Dutch beverage chain Gall & Gall had a Kilchoman single cask bottled for the first time, but the bottling then appeared somewhat belatedly at the beginning of 2022. This time, their second Kilchoman single cask release, a port cask finish, came onto the market just in time for the Christmas business. The whisky was first […]
Read moreIn October 2021, the three Dutch spirits shops Verhaar, Van der Hejden and Woudenberg released a Ruby Port Quarter Cask Finish in their joint series The Whisky Trinity. Kilchoman’s Port Quarter Cask finishing process involves decanting the contents of a bourbon barrel into two Port Quarter Casks half the size of the bourbon barrel and maturing them for a few more months. The […]
Read moreTwo new Ruby Port Quarter Cask Finish bottlings have been released in the Netherlands in the last few days, and a third has been announced. Port finishings in small quarter casks, one of the Kilchoman novelties of 2020, are still quite rare to find. First launched in the 2nd half of 2020, only a dozen of these bottlings have appeared […]
Read moreAt the end of last year, the well-known Dutch online spirits retailer drankdozijn (D12) launched its first two Kilchoman single cask releases: a bourbon cask bottling called “Blond” and a PX sherry finish called “Auburn”. Now the third bottling followed. And although it is indeed a Ruby Port Cask Finish, D12 did not follow our (not entirely serious) proposal made […]
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 […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the second online tasting of 2021 with George and James Wills for 8 April from 7pm Islay time. As with the 1st online tasting of the year, the tasting pack includes the two Core Range whiskies Machir Bay and Sanaig and two pre-release samples of 2021, this time the PX Matured release and a Ruby Port Quarter […]
Read moreCask Number: 213/2013 Cask type: Ex-Bourbon Barrel, Ruby Port Hogshead Finish Distillation Date: 4.4.2013 Bottling Date: 5.11.2020 Age: 7 yo Strength: 55,8 % abv Phenol level: 50 ppm Number of bottles: 249 Bottle volume: 0,7 l Market: Israel . In December 2020, Kilchoman shipped two single cask releases to Israel, which were then available there in February/March 2021: a Calvados […]
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