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A list of ALL KWM Whisky Calendar Bottles & Posts - Part One

Posted on July 23, 2025

by Evan

Continued in Part Two. Go to that post to see all bottles and posts from the 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, AND 2014 KWM Whisky Calendars!

Let's start with a bit of honesty: I made this list as much for me as I did for anybody else. I want it for future reference: it should allow me to easily find each blog post (strictly for research, not for copying. I swear!). It is also a guide showing which bottles we have featured in the past.

Plus, I wanted to geek out a bit! To that end, here are a few stats:

Total KWM Whisky Calendars made as of January 2025: 12
Total number of bottles featured in KWM Whisky Calendars from 2014 to 2024: 305*
- Each KWM Whisky Advent Calendar has featured 25 bottles. Plus, we did an extra Whisky Calendar in 2023: The KWM Whisky Calendar UBER EDITION.
  - * Except for the first KWM Whisky Advent Calendar in 2014 had no 25th bottle. It was limited to 24 bottles.
- * Each 2015 KWM Whisky Advent Calendar featured 1 of 6 different SMWS bottles.
Total number of KWM Casks featured: 27?
Total number of Kilchoman bottles featured: 10?
Total number of Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottlings featured: 14?
Total number of Gordon & MacPhail bottlings featured: 14?
Total number of Bourbon Whiskeys inflicted on Scotch Whisky enthusiasts: 9
Total number of Rye Whiskys inflicted on Scotch Whisky enthusiasts: 2
Total number of blog posts which talked about the bottle and distillery: 280
- Yeah, KWM missed writing about 25 bottles because no blog posts were made for the 2014 KWM Whisky Advent Calendar. The blog post tradition started with the 2015 KWM Whisky Advent Calendar.
Andrew wrote each and every blog post up to the 2017 KWM Whisky Calendar, where Evan wrote a few to pitch in. Evan did a few more for the 2018 edition.
Evan zealously took over all blog posting duties with the 2019 KWM Whisky Advent Calendar, and has yet to relinquish this “honour” back to Andrew or anybody else.
- This can mostly be blamed on Evan being full of himself and harbouring this absurd notion that people actually care about what he has to say.
Total number of Whisky Calendar blog posts Evan has written: 186 (feel free to count them and tell me if I am wrong!)
Total number of Whisky Calendar blog posts Andrew has written: 94 (see above!)
We started hosting recap tastings each five days during the bad-old-days of COVID-19, for the 2020 KWM Whisky Advent Calendar.
- We have continued doing the 5-day recap tastings ever since. Most of these recap tasting videos have been posted (for posterity, nostalgia, and cringing embarrassment's sake) on our YouTube page since 2021.
Total number of errors and spelling mistakes that remain in past blog posts: ∞
Total number of terrible dad jokes in Evan's blog posts: ∞
Number of years KWM has said the KWM Whisky Calendar will be ready for pickup by X date: 11
Number of years KWM has actually had KWM Whisky Calendars ready for pickup on said date: 0
Percentage of years that it was actually KWM's fault: ~30%
Likelihood that KWM will learn from this and not underestimate the ready for pickup date in the future: ~11.5%
Thankfulness level of KWM for having such patient and understanding customers: 100%

Anyhow, here is part one of the list!

KWM's 2024 This Is Not An Advent Calendar - The Full Monty

All posts for this whisky calendar written by Evan

Day 1 - Signatory Orkney (HP) 18 Year Old
Day 2 - Benromach 21 Year Old
Day 3 - That Boutique-y Whisky Co. Blended Grain 30 Year Old
Day 4 - Ardnahoe 5 Year Inaugural Release
Day 5 - Kilchoman 100% Islay 10 Year KWM Cask
YouTube Video — Not an Advent Calendar Five Day Recap Tasting set #1
Day 6 - That Boutique-y Whisky Co. Speyside #4 24-Year-Old KWM Cask
Day 7 - Lochlea Cask Strength Batch 2
Day 8 - Longrow Peated
Day 9 - Millstone 25 Year Oloroso Canada Cask
Day 10 - Caisteal Chamuis 12 Year Blended Malt
YouTube Video — Not an Advent Calendar Five Day Recap Tasting set #2
Day 11 - Bushmills 21 Year
Day 12 - Casks of Lindores II Bourbon Cask
Day 13 - Ardnamurchan AD/11:16 KWM Cask
Day 14 - Gordon & MacPhail Distillery Label Mortlach 25 Year
Day 15 - Rest & Be Thankful Port Charlotte 14 Year
YouTube Video — Not an Advent Calendar Five Day Recap Tasting set #3
Day 16 - That Boutique-y Whisky Co. 18 Year Highland Single Malt (Peated)
Day 17 - Scotch Malt Whisky Society 18.60 - SUPPING SHERRY FROM POLISHED WOODEN CUPS
Day 18 - Still Austin Cask Strength Bourbon
Day 19 - Gordon & MacPhail Glentauchers 2000 KWM Cask
Day 20 - Compass Box Flaming Heart 2022
YouTube Video — Not an Advent Calendar Five Day Recap Tasting set #4
Day 21 - Nikka From The Barrel
Day 22 - Single Malts of Scotland Reserve Casks - Ben Nevis 10 Year
Day 23 - Roseisle 12 Year 2023 Special Release
Day 24 - Berry's Blended Malt #1 1999
Day 25 - Gordon & MacPhail Ardmore 1997 KWM Cask
YouTube Video — Not an Advent Calendar Five Day Recap Tasting set #5

KWM 2023 Whisky Calendar

All posts for this whisky calendar written by Evan

Day 1 - Daftmill 15-Year-Old Cask Strength
Day 2 - That Boutique-y Whisky Company Teaninich Batch 6 - 12-Year-Old
Day 3 - Berry's The Perspective 21-Year-Old Blend
Day 4 - Gordon & MacPhail Distillery Label Glentauchers 2007
Day 5 - Amrut 9 Year KWM Port Pipe
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM Whisky Calendar Days 1-5 Recap Tasting
Day 6 - Compass Box Orchard House
Day 7 - Dumangin Starward 2017
Day 8 - Lismore 21 Year
Day 9 - Arran 2013 KWM Cask
Day 10 - Gordon & MacPhail Distillery Label Ardmore 2000
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM Whisky Calendar Days 6-10 Recap Tasting
Day 11 - Waterford Heritage Hunter 1.1
Day 12 - Old Forester 1920 Bourbon
Day 13 - That Boutique-y Whisky Co. Strathmill 14 Year Old
Day 14 - Gordon & MacPhail Mortlach 15 Year Old
Day 15 - Elements of Islay Cl14
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM Whisky Calendar Days 11-15 Recap Tasting
Day 16 - Maligne Range Tekarra
Day 17 - Speyburn 15 Year Old
Day 18 - Armorik Yeun Elez Whisky Breton
Day 19 - Single Malts of Scotland Marriage Speyside 25-Year-Old
Day 20 - Ardbeg Wee Beastie
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM Whisky Calendar Days 16-20 Recap Tasting
Day 21 - Old Pulteney 15 Year
Day 22 - Berry's Dailuaine 2010 KWM Cask
Day 23 - Bowmore 18 Year Old
Day 24 - Scotch Malt Whisky Society 36.209 - WILL YOU JOIN THE WORM TUB CLUB?
Day 25 - Gordon & MacPhail Linkwood 25
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM Whisky Calendar Days 21-25 Recap Tasting

KWM 2023 Whisky Calendar UBER EDITION

All posts for this whisky calendar written by Evan

Day 1 - Scotch Malt Whisky Society 42.73 – QUIET CONFIDENCE
Day 2 - Brave New Spirits Old Rhosdhu 28-Year-Old
Day 3 - Whisky Sponge Glen Garioch 1988 - 33-Year-Old
Day 4 - That Boutique-y Whisky Co. Millstone 25-Year-Old
Day 5 - Port Askaig 28-Year-Old Islay Single Malt
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM UBER Whisky Calendar Days 1-5 Recap Tasting
Day 6 - Midleton Very Rare Irish Whiskey
Day 7 - That Boutique-y Whisky Co. Caperdonich 23-Year-Old
Day 8 - Claxton's Tobermory 26-Year-Old
Day 9 - Glenfarclas Family Cask 1990
Day 10 - Ardbeg Hypernova
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM UBER Whisky Calendar Days 6-10 Recap Tasting
Day 11 - Canadian Club 45-Year-Old
Day 12 - Rosebank `The Roses` 21-Year-Old
Day 13 - Berry's Tullibardine 1993
Day 14 - Single Malts of Scotland - Clynelish 1995 Cask 8659
Day 15 - MacNair's Lum Reek 21-Year-Old
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM UBER Whisky Calendar Days 11-15 Recap Tasting
Day 16 - Whisky Trail Carsebridge 1973
Day 17 - Kavalan Solist Fino Sherry
Day 18 - That Boutique-y Whisky Co. Bourbon Whiskey 24-Year-Old
Day 19 - Valinch & Mallet Speyside 30-Year-Old
Day 20 - Gordon & MacPhail Ardmore 1997 - 24-Year-Old
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM UBER Whisky Calendar Days 16-20 Recap Tasting
Day 21 - Maltbarn Invergordon 1972 - 49-Year-Old
Day 22 - That Boutique-y Whisky Co. Japanese Whisky Batch 5 - 21-Year-Old
Day 23 - Gordon & MacPhail Bladnoch 1988 KWM Cask
Day 24 - Whisky Sponge Glen Keith 1993
Day 25 - Scotch Malt Whisky Society 76.151 - Cloves studded in honey-glazed ham
YouTube Video - 2023 KWM UBER Whisky Calendar Days 21-25 Recap Tasting