One of the stops on Anthony and Kathys recent tour of Australia was The Oak Barrel in Sydney where Anthony sampled several releases both new and old –
http://whiskyledger.com/2014/03/22/kilchoman-tasting-with-anthony-wills/
This year’s clothing range is now available including eye catching new t-shirts, ladies bodywarmers and our stylish new rugby top.
Please visit our online shop for more info – kilchomandistillery.com/whisky-shop/clothing
20% OFF SALE on all old stock.
We are happy to announce a new Kilchoman release named Coull Point. Continuing the tradition of naming our whiskies after landmarks near the distillery, Coull Point is rugged headland just half a mile north of Machir Bay. Coull Point is a limited edition bottling exclusively available from World of Whiskies duty free shops at airports across the UK.
Anthony and Kathy are currently halfway through a tasting tour of Dubai, India, New Zealand and Australia. They are spending three weeks on the road hosting tastings, visiting customers and attending whisky festivals. Here are a few examples of what they have been getting up to, including Anthony making an appearance on the channel 3 news at Dramfest..
http://www.3news.co.nz/Christchurch-host-to-largest-Southern-Hemisphere-…
http://mycustardpie.com/2014/02/27/kilchoman-whisky-tasting-in-dubai/
1. Kilchoman is named so because the distillery sits in the parish of Kilchoman, Kilchoman Church is only a few hundred metres from the still house.
2. It takes 17 days to transform harvested Kilchoman barley into new make spirit which is filled into casks
o 1 day drying the harvested barley
o 2 days steeping
o 5 days malting
o 1 day peating
o 2 days Kiln drying
o 1 day mashing
o 4 days fermenting
o 1 day distilling
3. Only 10 casks of Kilchoman were filled in 2005, the distillery’s founding year.
4. Kilchoman is approximately 1/10th the size of Islay’s next smallest distillery and 1/50th the size of Islay biggest distillery.
5. Kilchoman is one of only 7 Scotch whisky distilleries practicing traditional floor malting.
6. Kilchoman was the first distillery to be built on Islay for 124 years.
We are well underway with production in 2014 now and the small changes to the distillery have certainly made life a little easier on the malt floor! A conveyor in the middle of the floor now takes the barley straight up and into the Kiln.. A very welcome improvement from previously using broom handles and a variety of other things to poke barley down a shoot at the end of the malt floor. A very happy production team now!
We have had a busy start to 2014 at the distillery with lots of new equipment being fitted. As well as the new Conisby warehouse, which now holds all our maturing casks, we have installed two new vatting tanks in the warehouse opposite the still house. The new vatting tanks will marry the Machir Bay, 100% Islay and other releases prior to bottling. We have also made improvements to the malt handling which will make moving the barley from the malt floor to the kiln quicker and easier, no more poking barley down a hole with a broom handle! A new corking machine and conveyors in the bottling hall have brought big smiles to the faces of the bottling team – bruised hands from pushing in 1000’s of corks a day will be a thing of the past! We look forward to showing off these improvements to visitors when we fully reopen on February the 6th.
Happy New Year from everyone at Kilchoman! It was a great 2013 with a few changes at the distillery. A new warehouse has been built, new heat exchanging equipment has been installed and it was also a record production year with a little over 130,000 litres of alcohol being produced.
We are hoping for another fantastic year in 2014 and here is what we have planned for you..
– Machir Bay 2014 (Spring)
– Loch Gorm (Spring)
– 100% Islay 4th Edition (Spring)
– Cask Strength Release (Autumn)
– Port Cask Matured (Autumn)
We have had a great end to the year at Kilchoman and just to top it off our latest release, the 2007 Vintage, has been awarded Islay Single Malt of the Year by the Whisky Advocate Magazine. Brilliant news, our thanks go to Whisky Advocate. Merry Christmas and here’s to a prosperous 2014!
http://whiskyadvocate.com/whisky/2013/12/19/whisky-advocate-award-islay-single-malt-of-the-year-2/
For guaranteed Christmas delivery on all UK orders
please place your orders no later Wednesday 18th December.
For guaranteed Christmas delivery on all orders outside of the UK please
place your orders by Monday 16th December.
Orders placed after these dates will be dispatched up to the 24th December.
Please note orders placed after 25th December will not be
dispatched until 7th January 2014.
