All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
On 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 […]
Read moreImpEx Beverages, the enterprising US Kilchoman importer announced today that this year’s Kilchoman marketing tour will take them across the US for the first time. From 26 September to 9 October, James and Peter Wills, the sons of Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills, will travel in their Kilchoman Land Rover from Boston through the US states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New […]
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 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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