All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
Since last week a new Distillery Exclusive Release is available in the Kilchoman Visitor Centre. This time it is not a single cask bottling but a 100% Islay Small Batch Release. The bottling was created from whiskies that were matured for ten years in ex-bourbon barrels (approx. 60%) and Oloroso sherry casks (approx. 40%). Like all 100% Islay whiskies, the […]
Read moreA series of new Kilchoman bottlings for the Japanese market, which had already been bottled in November 2023, have now only been released in Japan in April 2024 due to the long transport routes. In addition to some single cask bottlings – a 12-year-old fully matured bourbon cask and a Kilchoman aged for almost 8 years in a refill Pedro […]
Read moreA Triskele Casks Release – the new name introduced this year for the Kilchoman Small Batch Series – has now also been released in Sweden at the end of the year. The Celtic symbol of the Triskele, which is known to adorn every Kilchoman bottle as a logo, symbolises, among other things, the unity of three elements. As a name […]
Read moreSince this year, Kilchoman has introduced a new name for its Small Batch Series – Triskele Casks. And so the new Small Batch release for the Netherlands is not called Netherlands Small Batch No. 4 but Triskele Casks – Netherlands Exclusive 2023/1. The Celtic symbol of the Triskele, which is known to adorn every Kilchoman bottle as a logo, symbolises, […]
Read moreWith Mashing – Stage 4, the fourth of the eight-bottling Genesis series has now been released. As we reported earlier, the Genesis series, developed by the German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen, is a German version of the Small Batch Series for Selected Markets with a higher quality design and packaging and a special marketing story. The marketing concept of […]
Read moreOn the occasion of the Islay Festival Fèis Ìle, the well-known French whisky merchant La Maison du Whisky, which is also the Kilchoman importer for France, has once again released an exclusive range of whiskies from the famous island under the name Islay Selection. Among them are two new Kilchoman Small Batch releases for France. As with two announced bottlings […]
Read moreThe basis of the whiskies in the series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which began in 2019, is an already finished Machir Bay vatting or Machir Bay Collaborative Vatting , i.e. a whisky with 46% alcohol strength, which was previously matured for approx. 5 years predominantly in bourbon barrels and 5-15% in oloroso sherry casks. This vatting is […]
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