As usual, the series of annual limited releases will be opened again this year with Loch Gorm, the Kilchoman whisky matured exclusively in oloroso sherry casks.

At the Kilchoman online tasting on 18 February, the whisky could already be tasted in advance and interesting information about this year’s edition could be learned.

The 2021 edition is a vatting of 24 Oloroso Sherry Butts filled in 2011 and 2012. As always with Kilchoman, these 500 litre sherry butts come from Bodega Miguel Martin and were filled with spirit that has a phenolic content of 50 ppm. Once these casks had been matured for a minimum of 9 years, they were then vatted together and bottled at 46% abv, resulting in 17,000 bottles.

In contrast to last year’s edition, which used a high percentage of refill sherry casks, giving the whisky a very complex character in which the typical fruity Kilchoman tones were not overly dominated by the sherry notes, the 2021 edition was matured mainly in fresh sherry casks. So lovers of very sherry-toned whiskies can rejoice.

After the 15,000 and 15,5000 bottles of the last few years, the circulation was increased slightly this year to meet the growing demand.

The release is expected to be available at retailers worldwide from this week, a limited number of bottles will also be sold in the Kilchoman online shop from Wednesday 31 March 2pm UK time for £69.90 (limited to one bottle per person).