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Kilchoman is one of currently ten producing whisky distilleries on the Scottish Hebridean island of Islay. Whisky lovers all over the world associate the name Islay primarily with heavily peaty whiskies. For friends of this type of whisky, including the makers of this website, Islay is literally whisky heaven. Every year tens of thousands of whisky fans visit the island and its distilleries to sample their favourite drops on the spot.

The Kilchoman distillery is one of the youngest on the island. When it went into production in 2005 it was the first new whisky distillery on Islay in 124 years. With this distillery, founder Anthony Wills wanted to continue the concept of a farm distillery, as it had been common in Scotland for centuries. More

New in the Visitor Centre: Marsala Single Cask Finish 1180/2016

A new Distillery Shop Exclusive release has been available at the Kilchoman Visitor Centre since yesterday. The Marsala Single Cask Finish is the ‘Be a Bottler’ cask from this year’s Fèis Ìle. The whisky was initially matured in a fresh bourbon barrel for almost 7 years and was decanted into a Marsala wine cask from the Florio winery in Marsala […]

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New in the Visitor Centre: 10 yo Distillery Exclusive 100% Islay Small Batch Release

Since last week a new Distillery Exclusive Release is available in the Kilchoman Visitor Centre. This time it is not a single cask bottling but a 100% Islay Small Batch Release. The bottling was created from whiskies that were matured for ten years in ex-bourbon barrels (approx. 60%) and Oloroso sherry casks (approx. 40%). Like all 100% Islay whiskies, the […]

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Kilchoman 12 yo Oloroso Sherry Single Cask 624/2011 for The Whisky Shop

The well-known British spirits chain The Whisky Shop has now released another exclusive Kilchoman single cask bottling. After a PX sherry cask maturation last year, this time it is an Oloroso sherry cask maturation. The “Single Farm Single Malt Whisky” was matured for twelve and a half years in a Oloroso sherry hogshead. Such a long maturation period in a […]

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