All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
On 29 July 2017, Explorers Club Members Chad Anderson and Justin Fornal, along with fellow swimmer Johnnie Mundell, completed the world’s first circumnavigational swim of the 100-mile coastline of Islay. Entitled The Great Islay Swim, the circumnavigation took eight days. The aim of the expedition was to celebrate the island of Islay – to include each of the local distilleries, […]
Read moreYesterday, 1st May, Kilchoman released the “100% Islay 7th Edition”. This year’s bottling of the series was distilled in 2010 and produced from barley grown, malted, distilled, matured and bottled at the distillery. The whisky was matured for over 7 years in fresh and refill ex-bourbon barrels, making it the longest matured edition of the “100% Islay” releases to date. […]
Read moreKilchoman announces that the entire bottling of Cask No. 142/2006 has been stolen and asks anyone offered a bottle of this bottling for sale to contact the distillery immediately. This is the bottling of a Private Cask by Stuart Wilson, distilled on 12 July 2006 and bottled on 24 July 2016 with an alcohol content of 52.1%. The entire edition […]
Read moreOn 14 February 2017, the renowned Scotch whisky expert Dr James Swan passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in Edinburgh at the age of 75. Jim Swan was a scientist and consultant who applied his unrivalled knowledge of whisky to the planning and commissioning of numerous new distilleries in Scotland and around the world. In his function as “Whisky Consultant”, he […]
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Read moreKilchoman announced the release of the 5th edition of the annual “Club Release” reserved for Kilchoman Club members for 14 November. On this day, it will be available for £109,50 – limited to one bottle per person – in the distillery’s web shop. This time, the special feature of the bottling is not due to a special cask maturation, but […]
Read moreKilchoman has now released a new Distillery Shop Exclusive Release for the Visitor Centre. This time it is a vatting of three ex-bourbon barrels in which the 100% Islay whisky, made from the farm’s own barley, was initially matured for just over 4 years and was then decanted into Oloroso sherry hogsheads on 21 December 2015 and finished in these […]
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