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On 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 […]
Read moreKilchoman announced today that the last Limited Release of 2015 will be available on 5 October. And this one is something very special: a Madeira Cask Matured Release. Following last year’s limited edition 3rd Club Release, which featured a Kilchoman from a Madeira cask, this is the first time that a larger release from this type of cask will be […]
Read moreAs last year, Peter and James Wills, sons of founder and managing director Anthony Wills, will once again be touring Europe for four weeks in September and October in the Kilchoman Land Rover. To mark the distillery’s tenth anniversary, they will be visiting Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. They will present the distillery’s entire range, including the established […]
Read moreAfter narrowly missing the mark last year, Kilchoman was proud to announce today that for the first time in the distillery’s history, more than 1000 casks were filled with distillate in one year. Cask No. 1000/2014 was filled on 18 December and will now mature for several years in Conisby. .
Read moreKilchoman today announced the dates for the evening tastings of the UK Land Rover Tour 2014. After James and Peter Wills embarked on a tour of eight European countries with the Kilchoman Land Rover in September, George Wills, the eldest of the three sons and responsible for the home market in the Kilchoman marketing team, will tour the UK for […]
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