Timeline 2003

November 2003: In an interview in Walter Schobert’s “Whisky Watch No. 22”, Mark French emphasises that he firmly believes that the distillery will be built in 2004 after two failed attempts. The newly formed team now includes him and Anthony Wills, whisky scientist James Swan and whisky expert and author Charles MacLean. Sir John MacTaggart, who was already involved with […]

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Timeline 2001

Anthony Wills, a former wine merchant and independent whisky bottler from England, and Mark French, who runs the Rockside Farm on Islay, develop the idea of building a traditional farm distillery on the Rockside Farm. On 12.11.2001 Kilchoman Distillery Company Ltd is incorporated as a private limited company into the Companies Register with Anthony Wills as Director and his wife […]

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