All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
On 20 March 2020, Kilchoman invited whisky fans to a “Friday Night In with Anthony Wills” for the first time. Live on Instagram, Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills reported on distillery news and in particular on the opening of the new Still House and the new Visitor Centre, which marked the completion of the expansion programme started in 2017 to double […]
Read moreAs was to be feared, the organisers of Fèis Ìle have decided to cancel this year’s Islay Festival due to the COVID 19 crisis.Especially on the occasion of Kilchoman’s 15th anniversary – the distillery was officially opened during Fèis Ìle 2005 – Kilchoman fans had hoped for a very special Kilchoman Open Day.But there’s also good news: Kilchoman will nevertheless […]
Read moreOn Friday 21 February, Kilchoman celebrated with 150 invited guests – family, friends, colleagues and business partners – the opening of the new still house and visitor centre. This marked the completion of the ambitious £6 million expansion programme of recent years, the aim of which was to double production capacity to meet the increasing demand for Kilchoman whisky in […]
Read moreWith effect from 6 April 2020, Alba Import will no longer be the German importer of Kilchoman whisky. As Dietmar Schulz of Alba Import told us, the ideas of how the brand should be represented in Germany in the future and through which distribution channels the Kilchoman whiskies should be placed, had developed considerably apart between the two business partners […]
Read moreAs reported in the social media today, Hungarian zoologist and obvious Kilchoman fan Barna Páll-Gergely has identified a land snail found in North Vietnam in 2013 by researchers from the Natural History Museum London as a new species and named it after the Kilchoman distillery. The new land snail species is named Entadella kilchomani and reaches a diameter of 3.5 […]
Read moreAfter the farewell of Nicole Lindsay, who managed the Kilchoman Visitor Centre from 2017 to 2019 (we reported), a new manager has now taken up work after exactly one month. Carol-Ann MacTaggart, who comes from Bowmore, attended Islay High School there and worked at Lochside Hotel in Bowmore from 2005-2013. She then worked as Assistant Manager at the Bridgend Hotel, […]
Read moreKilchoman announced today on its website that it is looking for a sales manager for the UK. Here is the text: We are looking for a UK Sales Manager to join the team based in our Edinburgh office. We have taken UK distribution of our Single Malts back in-house and are looking for a driven individual with experience in the […]
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