All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
The Kilchoman distillery has been sponsoring the Islay Pipe Band since 2012. The activities of the band have often been reported on the Kilchoman homepage and a performance by the Islay Pipe Band has been a fixed item on the programme at the Kilchoman Open Day at Fèis Ìle for years. Since 2013, Kilchoman has released an annual single cask […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of the 6th edition of the annual “100% Islay Limited Release”. The bottling will be available from 12 May for £72, initially in limited quantities from the distillery’s web shop and then shortly from retailers worldwide. Made from the farm’s own barley and slightly lighter peated, 100% Islay whisky, with all production steps carried out […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced its programme for the Islay Festival Fèis Ìle 2016. Kilchoman Open Day will be Thursday 26 May, but there will already be some special events from Monday to Wednesday. Here is an overview of the packed programme: Monday 23rd Founders Tour with Anthony Wills – 2pmAn in depth tour of the distillery with founder Anthony Wills, finishing […]
Read moreKilchoman today announced the release of this year’s Loch Gorm release. The fifth and oldest release to date of Kilchoman’s annual limited edition of whisky matured exclusively in oloroso sherry casks, which has borne the name of the loch near the distillery since the 2nd release, will be available from the distillery shop for £65.40 from 10am Islay Time on […]
Read moreOn 27 March, Easter Sunday, Distillery Manager John MacLellan passed away from cancer. This is not only a huge human loss for Kilchoman, but a loss of expertise that can hardly be measured. After many years as manager of the Bunnahabhain distillery, John moved to Kilchoman in March 2010 and brought his wealth of experience to Kilchoman production and cask […]
Read moreBryony Boyd has now been appointed as the new Visitor Centre Manager. She was previously employed as a tour guide at Laphroaig for five years. As one of her first steps, she visited the visitor centres of the other distilleries with the whole Kilchoman crew to get an impression of how the others work and what could be done better […]
Read moreKilchoman distillery has now announced that its sherry cask-influenced NAS malt Sanaig, named after an inlet north west of the distillery, will join Machir Bay as the distillery´s core range. Sanaig has a heavy oloroso cask influence in contrast to the predominantly ex-Bourbon cask-matured Machir Bay. Both continuously matured oloroso sherry casks – namely the smaller sherry hogsheads – and […]
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