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April 4, 2018

The parish of Kilchoman is home to some of Islay’s most fertile ground.  It is here, in the fields surrounding the distillery, where we grow an average of 200 tonnes of barley each year.  Sown each Spring, once Islay’s 50,000 geese have migrated, our farm team care for the barley over the summer months before harvesting in early September.  Harvest time represents the start of the whisky-making process which sees our Kilchoman grown barley malted, distilled, matured and bottled here at the distillery, eventually becoming Islay’s only Single Farm Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

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