All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
With the release of “Rockside 11 years old”, the Kilchoman Distillery has now reached a new milestone in its history that cannot be praised highly enough. Twenty years after its founding, there is finally a permanently available bottling produced exclusively from barley grown at Kilchoman’s Rockside Farm. The bottlings known as 100% Islay or “Single Farm Single Malts” – that […]
Read moreThe latest edition of Loch Gorm, Kilchoman’s annual Oloroso sherry cask matured limited release, is now available. As is well known, the bottling is named after the largest freshwater loch on Islay, located near the distillery, whose dark, murky waters are said to be reflected in the rich copper tones of the sherry-matured Loch Gorm. The annual Loch Gorm editions […]
Read moreThis year, the Islay festival Fèis Ìle is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Due to the new Islay distilleries, the festival has now been extended to 10 days, with a particularly large number of interesting events announced. Today, Kilchoman unveiled its programme for the Kilchoman Open Day on Thursday 28 May, presented the festival special edition bottling and announced two tasting […]
Read moreAs its first limited release of 2026, Kilchoman has now announced a world first: the first full maturation of a Kilchoman whisky in Maury wine casks. Maury is a sweet fortified wine from the Roussillon region in southern France, produced mainly from Grenache Noir grapes. The production of this fortified wine is comparable to that of Port wine; apart from […]
Read moreAfter no Kilchoman European Tour took place last year – Kilchoman celebrated its 20th anniversary with a variety of individual events, including the Kilchoman Days – the Kilchoman Land Rover, with a brand new look, will once again set off on a journey across Europe this year. And this will be a tour of superlatives: in ten weeks, from 20 […]
Read moreIn August 2025, shortly before a historic milestone in the history of the Kilchoman distillery – the 20th anniversary of the first cask being filled on 14 December 2005 – Kilchoman launched a competition offering whisky lovers the unique chance to win the very first bottle of a 20-year-old Kilchoman, drawn directly from cask no. 1 (as we reported). The […]
Read moreAs it has done at the end of every year since 2012, Kilchoman has now announced this year’s 14th exclusive bottling for members of the Kilchoman Club. Following last year’s nine-year-old single cask bottling of an Oloroso sherry butt, Anthony Wills and Robin Bignal have once again selected an Oloroso sherry butt, only this time it is significantly older at […]
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