Timeline 2009

  • May: at the Islay Whisky Festival, Anthony Wills auctions for charity a single bottle of whisky taken from the first cask bottled in 2005. (Distilled on 14.12.2005, bottled on 22.5.2009, 60,7 %) The collector and Kilchoman shareholder Nils Ladefoged auctioned it for 5400 pounds.

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  • 9 September (9.9.9): with the “Kilchoman Inaugural Release”, the first Kilchoman whisky is released, a milestone in the still young history of Kilchoman.
    The whisky was first matured for between 2,5 to 3 years in fresh bourbon barrels before being finished for 5 month in fresh oloroso sherry butts. Like all future Kilchoman whiskies, it was not coloured and not chill-filtered. The edition is 8,450 bottles.
    Anthony Wills had invited to the “Inaugural Single Malt Launch Party” for this day and celebrated the release of the first Kilchoman whisky with many whisky celebrities (including the managers of the other Islay distilleries).
    From 10 September, it was available in 14 countries worldwide (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland).
Anthony and Kathy Wills
Charles MacLean

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  • September: Bottled just 6 days after the Kilchoman Inaugural Release, the French Kilchoman importer La Maison du Whisky (LMDW) releases Bourbon Barrel 232/2006, the first bottling of a Kilchoman single cask. The whisky meets with a very positive response in France.
  • 30 November 30: with the “Autumn 2009 Release” the 2nd limited edition of Kilchoman is released. Until the beginning of 2011, new editions will follow every quarter. This time it is a whisky that was first matured in fresh ex-Bourbon barrels for 3 years before being finished in Oloroso Sherry Butts for two and a half months. The circulation of 10.000 bottles is sold in 15 countries worldwide – Taiwan was added as a new market.
Timeline