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The Kilchoman Open Day at the Islay Festival Fèis Ìle 2025 is generating particularly high expectations among fans this year, as the distillery was founded 20 years ago at Fèis Ìle 2005. Today, Kilchoman announced its programme for the day, Thursday 29 May, and presented the festival special bottling and two tasting packs for online tastings. . . The diverse […]
Read moreThe latest edition of Loch Gorm, Kilchoman’s annual sherry matured limited release, is now available. The bottling is named after the largest freshwater loch on Islay, located near the distillery, whose dark, murky waters are said to be reflected in the rich copper tones of the sherry-matured Loch Gorm. The annual Loch Gorm editions vary slightly from year to year […]
Read moreThe Kilchoman distillery, founded at the Fèis Ìle 2005, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. In the anniversary year, Kilchoman is planning, among other things, the release of a few anniversary bottlings with age statements. For example, a 13-year-old and an 18-year-old whisky, and this year’s Loch Gorm will also be released for the first time with an explicit age […]
Read moreWe are delighted to announce the release of our latest Kilchomania bottling: a STR Cask Matured / New Oak Finish! As proven Kilchoman specialists, we always aim to introduce our readers and members to very exceptional Kilchoman whiskies with our bottlings. We set the bar very high with our last issue. This bottling of cask no. 05/2006 is considered by […]
Read moreAfter the German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen had already released the series of Kilchoman single cask bottlings ‘The Sister Casks – A Maturation Journey’ at the beginning of the year to mark the company’s 50th anniversary, it is now concluding the anniversary year with another Kilchoman single cask bottling. This time it is one of the rather rare bottlings […]
Read moreTraditionally, Kilchoman releases an exclusive bottling for the members of its Kilchoman Club at the end of each year. This year’s 13th club release has now been announced. Anthony Wills and Robin Bignal decided on a nine-year-old single cask bottling of an Oloroso sherry butt. Sourced from Bodega José y Miguel Martín in Jerez, cask 209/2015 is a fresh ex-oloroso […]
Read moreAfter the first celebrated 16-year-old Kilchoman releases two years ago, it was of course only a matter of time before we would be able to welcome the first 18-year old bottling. However, this was not really expected this year, as Kilchoman has announced its first 18-year-old Kilchoman release internally for its anniversary year in 2025, and very few casks from […]
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