All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
The year 2025 marks a special milestone in Kilchoman’s history. Opened in 2005 as the first new distillery on Islay in 124 years, Kilchoman is now, two decades later, an extremely successful Islay whisky distillery and is particularly proud of being independent and family-run, and of implementing the traditional production methods of a farm distillery ‘from barley to bottle’. . […]
Read moreIn 2013, Kilchoman released Coull Point, its first bottling for duty free, more specifically for the British travel retail chain ‘World of Whiskies.’ This was followed in 2014 by Saligo Bay, a bottling for the international travel retail sector. For over 10 years, these two bottlings remained the only ones available, but now Kilchoman has reorganised its duty-free portfolio and […]
Read moreAfter a break of almost two years, German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen has now released An t-Earrach 2025, a new edition of the Uniquely Islay series, which is distributed exclusively in Germany. Following Uniquely Islay – An t-Earrach 2020, Uniquely Islay – An Geamhradh 2020, Uniquely Islay – An Samhradh 2021, Uniquely Islay – An t-Earrach 2022, Uniquely Islay […]
Read moreThe renowned New Zealand whisky shop Whisky Galore in Christchurch, which has also been hosting the well-known New Zealand whisky festival Dramfest since 2007, has now released a new Kilchoman single cask bottling with a Marsala cask finish. The whisky was first matured for five years in an ex-bourbon barrel before being finished in a Marsala wine cask for more […]
Read moreAlmost six months after the last release, a new exclusive bottling has now been released for the Kilchoman Distillery Shop. Thanks to significantly fewer visitors during the winter months, bottlings are available for longer during this period. However, it is likely that the new release will be sold out by Fèis Ìle at the latest. The bottling released yesterday is […]
Read moreKilchoman is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the distillery’s founding not only with a series of events but also with special bottlings. The centrepiece of these anniversary bottlings – the 20th Anniversary Cask Series – is now available. It consists of four small batch bottlings – two 14-year-old, one 15-year-old and one 18-year-old single malt Scotch whisky, the oldest Kilchoman […]
Read moreIn 2019, Japanese bars Authentic Bar Brownie, Public Bar Islands, Bar Laddie, Ginza Zenith, Bar Campbelltoun Loch, Bar Rosebank and Bar Shamrock jointly released a Kilchoman single cask release under the name Memories of Scotland. Now, with some different participants, Memories of Scotland 2 has been released. This time, seven representatives from three Japanese whisky bars and three Japanese whisky […]
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