John McLellan has been voted by the Whisky Magazine as Distillery Manager of the Year! John has won the award along with Eddie McAffer of Bowmore. This award is fully deserved for the hard work John has put in this year creating some of the finest spirit in Scotland. Congratulations John!
The Good Dram Show reviewed four of the latest releases from Kilchoman; Machir Bay, 2006 Vintage, Sherry Cask and Spring 2011.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of the 2nd Editon 100% Islay which will be released on the 1st of September.
This is the second 100% Islay release from Kilchoman and has been produced from barley grown, malted, distilled, matured and bottled at the distillery. It has been aged for over 3 years in a combination of fresh and refill bourbon barrels.
The International Wine and Spirits Competition was held recently and it was a successful day for Kilchoman! We entered three releases for the competition; Machir Bay, 2006 Vintage and the Sherry Cask release and all three received top awards.
Machir Bay – Gold Award
2006 Vintage – Gold Award
Sherry Release – Silver Outstanding
The Master of Malt team visited us along with around 20 others for a special tasting during Feis Ile. The tasting was taken by Anthony Wills and consisted of some special drams of the Feis Ile 2012, Sherry cask release, Sauternes single cask and a bourbon single cask. Master of Malt have written about their visit in the link below.
http://www.masterofmalt.com/Blog/post/Feis-Ile-2012-Day-5.aspx
The Scottish Field Whisky Challenge took place recently with 40 different whiskies being blind tasted by a panel of judges. Our 2006 Vintage release did fantastically well, placing 3rd in the £35 – £80 section and an impressive 7th overall!! Not bad for a 5 year old…
Last week reviews of the Machir Bay and Sherry Cask releases were shared wiith you and now here are some more from The 2006 Vintage release and Single Cask #322 bottled for the Kensington Wine Market in Calgary –
2006 Vintage – http://theperfectwhiskymatch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/kilchoman-new-kid-on-islay-block-she.html
Single Cask #322 – http://www.allthingswhisky.com/?p=859
An interesting blog written by David Driscoll from K&L Wines in USA, who visited Islay recently and took his first trip up to see us at Kilchoman..
Here are two recent reviews of our most recent releases…
The Sherry Cask release is our first fully matured sherry release. This release has been matured for 5 years in Oloroso sherry butts and has a unique flavour, different to that of previous Kilchoman releases – http://www.edinburghwhiskyblog.com/2012/05/02/a-quick-dram-kilchoman-sherry-cask/
The Machir Bay release which is our first general release. This is a vatting of 3, 4 and 5 year old bourbon casks with the 4 year old casks being finished in Oloroso Sherry butts for 8 weeks – http://www.dramming.com/2012/05/02/kilchoman-machir-bay/
The Sherry Cask Release is now available to buy from the online shop and at the distillery!
The Sherry Cask Release is a limited bottling of 6,000 worldwide and is a vatting of 5 year old sherry casks at 46%. This is the first release to have our smart new ‘Sherry Cask’ packaging.
