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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 can grow up to 440 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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100% Islay 9 Years Old – 15th Edition

As we complete our 2025 barley harvest, we’re delighted to release the 15th Edition of our 100% Islay range.  This year’s 9 year old release is a vatting of 54 ex-bourbon barrels distilled from our 2014 and 2015 Concerto and Publican barley harvests. Islay-grown barley and a slightly lower peating…

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