All about the Kilchoman distillery and its whiskies
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the release of the first Kilchoman single malt whisky in Germany, the German Kilchoman importer “Alba Import” had organised a series of tastings with Peter Wills in six German cities (we reported).To mark this anniversary, a special single cask bottling was also launched, the “Bourbon Matured Single Cask No. 10/2009 – Celebrating […]
Read moreOn 20 March 2020, Kilchoman invited whisky fans to a “Friday Night In with Anthony Wills” for the first time. Live on Instagram, Kilchoman founder Anthony Wills reported on distillery news and in particular on the opening of the new Still House and the new Visitor Centre, which marked the completion of the expansion programme started in 2017 to double […]
Read moreAs was to be feared, the organisers of Fèis Ìle have decided to cancel this year’s Islay Festival due to the COVID 19 crisis.Especially on the occasion of Kilchoman’s 15th anniversary – the distillery was officially opened during Fèis Ìle 2005 – Kilchoman fans had hoped for a very special Kilchoman Open Day.But there’s also good news: Kilchoman will nevertheless […]
Read moreDuring the whisky fair DramFest 2020, which took place on 7 and 8 March in Christchurch, New Zealand, Anthony Wills from Kilchoman and Alex Bruce from Ardnamurchan presented a very special new bottling: KilchArd, a blended malt created from one whisky cask from each of the two distilleries. The idea for the bottling was born on a Saturday evening after […]
Read moreOn Friday 21 February, Kilchoman celebrated with 150 invited guests – family, friends, colleagues and business partners – the opening of the new still house and visitor centre. This marked the completion of the ambitious £6 million expansion programme of recent years, the aim of which was to double production capacity to meet the increasing demand for Kilchoman whisky in […]
Read moreDue to a breakdown of the kiln Kilchoman produced an “unpeated” whisky from the farm’s own barley for a short time in late Summer 2012 (we reported). Since the “low wines and feints receiver” from which the spirit still is filled was not laboriously emptied in between the alternating distillation runs with peated Port Ellen malt, however, the result was […]
Read moreWith effect from 6 April 2020, Alba Import will no longer be the German importer of Kilchoman whisky. As Dietmar Schulz of Alba Import told us, the ideas of how the brand should be represented in Germany in the future and through which distribution channels the Kilchoman whiskies should be placed, had developed considerably apart between the two business partners […]
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