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As its first limited release of 2026, Kilchoman has now announced a world first: the first full maturation of a Kilchoman whisky in Maury wine casks. Maury is a sweet fortified wine from the Roussillon region in southern France, produced mainly from Grenache Noir grapes. The production of this fortified wine is comparable to that of Port wine; apart from […]
Read moreIn January 2025, German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen released the world’s first Kilchoman Orange Wine Cask Finish for German Comraich bars. The whisky was enthusiastically received by Kilchoman fans. The Orange Wine cask gave the Kilchoman distillate a very special, sweet fruit note that cannot be compared to red or white wine cask maturation. No further Kilchoman Orange Wine […]
Read moreAfter no Kilchoman European Tour took place last year – Kilchoman celebrated its 20th anniversary with a variety of individual events, including the Kilchoman Days – the Kilchoman Land Rover, with a brand new look, will once again set off on a journey across Europe this year. And this will be a tour of superlatives: in ten weeks, from 20 […]
Read moreIn August 2025, shortly before a historic milestone in the history of the Kilchoman distillery – the 20th anniversary of the first cask being filled on 14 December 2005 – Kilchoman launched a competition offering whisky lovers the unique chance to win the very first bottle of a 20-year-old Kilchoman, drawn directly from cask no. 1 (as we reported). The […]
Read moreAs it has done at the end of every year since 2012, Kilchoman has now announced this year’s 14th exclusive bottling for members of the Kilchoman Club. Following last year’s nine-year-old single cask bottling of an Oloroso sherry butt, Anthony Wills and Robin Bignal have once again selected an Oloroso sherry butt, only this time it is significantly older at […]
Read moreAs we reported back in June, Kilchoman reorganised its duty-free portfolio at the beginning of 2025 after more than 10 years without any changes. A new bottling was released, Ballinaby – Sherry Casks, and Saligo Bay was discontinued. The Coull Point bottling will continue to be available and, like Ballinaby, will be available in both the British and international travel […]
Read moreKilchoman announced today that it will once again be selling a limited number of private casks exclusively to Kilchoman Club members. In the early years of the distillery, Kilchoman sold numerous freshly filled casks to private individuals to raise much-needed capital for the distillery’s operations. This private cask programme was discontinued in 2007, and Kilchoman even endeavoured to buy back […]
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