Timeline 2001

  • Anthony Wills, a former wine merchant and independent whisky bottler from England, and Mark French, who runs the Rockside Farm on Islay, develop the idea of building a traditional farm distillery on the Rockside Farm.
  • On 8 October 2001, planning permission for the “Conversion of redundant farm buildings and erection of new buildings to form new malt whisky distillery” is applied for from Argyll & Bute Council.
  • On 12 November 2001 Kilchoman Distillery Company Ltd is incorporated as a private limited company into the Companies Register with Anthony Wills as Director and his wife Katherine as Secretary.

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  • Argyll & Bute Council grants planning permission on 7 December 2001. As usual, this is valid for 5 years.
  • Already in December 2001 the website www.kilchomandistillery.com goes online and presents the planned distillery. Sketches of the later exterior view of the distillery and the shape of the stills are already shown here.

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