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Kilchoman is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the distillery’s founding not only with a series of events but also with special bottlings. The centrepiece of these anniversary bottlings – the 20th Anniversary Cask Series – is now available. It consists of four small batch bottlings – two 14-year-old, one 15-year-old and one 18-year-old single malt Scotch whisky, the oldest Kilchoman […]
Read moreThe Kilchoman distillery, founded at the Fèis Ìle 2005, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. As part of the anniversary celebrations, Kilchoman plans to release an anniversary series comprising four bottlings aged between 14 and 18 years. In addition, all other limited releases, such as Loch Gorm, 100% Islay etc., are also set to be released this year with […]
Read moreKilchoman has now discontinued its series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which was only renamed Triskele Casks in mid-2023. Reason enough for us to honour the series, which was launched in July 2019, once again in detail in an overview article. Kilchoman pursued several objectives in 2019 with the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which […]
Read moreAt the end of 2018, Kilchoman launched the ‘Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting Programme’, which aimed to give local retailers the opportunity to create personalised bottlings of the distillery´s flagship expression Machir Bay. Deviating from the normal cask composition of Machir Bay, which is 90% bourbon and 10% Oloroso sherry, retailers could choose one of four different variants with slightly altered […]
Read moreIn 2019, the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), the trade body of the Scotch whisky industry, changed the regulations on cask maturation of Scotch whisky. In the course of the trend towards maturing or finishing whisky in increasingly exotic casks in order to offer consumers new taste experiences, demands for a relaxation of the previous rules, which many distilleries considered restrictive, […]
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