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Kilchoman Days 2025 announced

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 […]
Kilchoman Uniquely Islay Series – An t-Earrach 2025 released

After 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 […]
20th Anniversary Cask Series released

Kilchoman 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 […]
Fèis Ìle 2025: Programme, Festival Release, Tasting Packs

The Kilchoman Open Day at the Islay Festival Fèis Ìle 2025 is generating particularly high expectations among fans this year, as the distillery was founded 20 years ago at Fèis Ìle 2005. […]
Kilchoman Loch Gorm 2025 Edition 10 Years Old released

The latest edition of Loch Gorm, Kilchoman’s annual sherry matured limited release, is now available. The bottling is named after the largest freshwater loch on Islay, located near the distillery, whose dark, […]
Kilchoman 13 yo Limited Release announced

The Kilchoman distillery, founded at the Fèis Ìle 2005, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. In the anniversary year, Kilchoman is planning, among other things, the release of a few anniversary bottlings […]
New Kilchomania Bottling released: New Oak Finish Single Cask 237/2018

We are delighted to announce the release of our latest Kilchomania bottling: a STR Cask Matured / New Oak Finish! As proven Kilchoman specialists, we always aim to introduce our readers and […]
New on the German market: 100% Islay Unpeated 12 yo Sherry Butt 560/2012

After the German Kilchoman importer Hanseatische Weinhandelsgesellschaft Bremen had already released the series of Kilchoman single cask bottlings ‘The Sister Casks – A Maturation Journey’ at the beginning of the year to […]
Kilchoman Club Release 13th Edition announced

Traditionally, Kilchoman releases an exclusive bottling for the members of its Kilchoman Club at the end of each year. This year’s 13th club release has now been announced. Anthony Wills and Robin […]
First 18 yo Kilchoman bottling released in Japan

After the first celebrated 16-year-old Kilchoman releases two years ago, it was of course only a matter of time before we would be able to welcome the first 18-year old bottling. However, […]
Kilchoman Sanaig Cask Strength 2024 Edition released

The Machir Bay cask strength bottlings occasionally released by Kilchoman enjoyed great popularity among Kilchoman fans. They showed Kilchoman’s standard whisky from an even more fruity side. It is therefore not surprising […]
Two new Kilchoman single cask bottlings for Italy presented at Kilchoman Day Milan 2024

KILCHOMAN DAY 2024 took place on Saturday 5 October at Palazzo Giureconsulti in Piazza del Duomo, Milan. Visitors to the event, which was dedicated entirely to the Kilchoman distillery, were able to […]
Kilchoman Comraich 100% Islay Casks released

The latest Comraich release has been available in the first Comraich bars (an overview can be found here) for a few days now. Kilchoman had been thinking about the concept of Comraich […]
Kilchoman 100% Islay 14th Edition released

As has always been the case since 2018, when the release date of the annual limited 100% Islay Release was moved to autumn, this year’s edition was also released on time in […]
New Kilchoman Cask Offer for Club Members

Kilchoman announced today that after a long time it will once again be offering a limited number of private casks exclusively for Kilchoman Club members through a ballot system which opened on […]
Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets / Genesis / Triskele Casks – An Overview

Kilchoman has now discontinued its series of Small Batch Releases for Selected Markets, which was only renamed Triskele Casks in mid-2023. Reason enough for us to honour the series, which was launched […]
Kilchomania has tasted: 100% Islay Limited Release, 13th Edition

With the 13th edition of the 100% Islay Limited Release, Kilchoman returns to a pure bourbon cask maturation, as was the case with the early 100% Islay editions. It is a vatting […]
Taste Guide: Calvados Cask

In 2019, the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), the trade body of the Scotch whisky industry, changed the regulations on cask maturation of Scotch whisky. In the course of the trend towards maturing […]

Welcome

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