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Since 23 July 2023, a new Distillery Shop Exclusive release is available in the Kilchoman Visitor Centre. This time it is a good 10 years old Sauternes Cask Finish: the whisky was first matured for more than 8 years in an ex-bourbon barrel and was then finished for 21 months in a Sauternes wine cask. The yield was 236 bottles […]
Read moreAfter the first three Kilchoman Single Cask bottlings were released in Slovakia at the beginning of this year, two more followed in December. Besides another Sauternes finish, especially the Marsala finish, one of the first Kilchoman bottlings of this type of maturation, should meet with great interest. Both casks were filled on 31 January 2013. After maturing for over 8 […]
Read moreAt the beginning of December 2022, the two friendly Taiwanese spirits shops Spirits Salon & Xin Zhou Store jointly released the Kilchoman single cask bottling listed here. Distilled in 2014, the whisky was first matured in a bourbon barrel and then finished in a Sauternes wine cask. The yield was 255 bottles with an alcohol content of 54.9%. . Cask […]
Read moreAfter the well-known Dutch online spirits retailer drankdozijn (D12) had just released its fifth Kilchoman Single Cask Release with “Ubhal”, the sixth is now already following under the name “Mealach”. Previously, “Blond” and “Auburn” were released at the end of 2020, “Lava” in mid-2021, and “Añejo” at the end of 2021. “Mealach” means “sweet” in Gaelic, which is a clear […]
Read moreThe Kilchoman Appreciation Society is the largest Facebook group of Kilchoman lovers worldwide. For their first own single cask bottling, 50 of their members chose Sauternes Cask No. 903/2015 from 4 different cask samples in an online tasting with Anthony Wills on 3 February 2022. The cask was bottled in mid-April and since yesterday the 50 members of the selection […]
Read moreThree interesting Kilchoman single cask bottlings have just been released in Slovakia: a Sauternes finish, an 11-year-old bourbon cask maturation and only the second Kilchoman Armagnac finish release worldwide. In the case of the latter, the comparison with the world’s first release, which was released in Germany in autumn 2021 within the Uniquely Islay – An Samhradh 2021 series, should […]
Read moreAt the end of February, a Kilchoman Single Cask Release – a Sauternes Cask Finish – was released for the first time for the Dutch beverage chain Gall & Gall.The whisky was first matured in a fresh bourbon barrel for over 6 years before being finished in a Sauternes wine cask for 9 months. . Cask No: 704/2014 Cask type: […]
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