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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.

Kilchoman Timeline

2001 After a 20-year career in the drinks industry, initially in wine and latterly as an independent bottler of whisky, Anthony Wills has the idea of building a new Islay distillery. Kilchoman Distillery Company Ltd is incorporated as a private limited company on November 12th, 2001. 2003 The idea of…

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COUNTRIES	ORDER QUANTITY	CHARGE
UNITED KINGDOM	up to 9kg (1 x 70cl = 1.5kg)	£6
BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG, NETHERLANDS, IRELAND, GERMANY	up to 9kg (1 x 70cl = 1.5kg)	£22

BULGARIA,CZECH REPUBLIC, ESTONIA*, CROATIA, LATVIA, SLOVENIA, LITHUANIA, GREECE	up to 9kg (1 x 70cl = 1.5kg)	£28
GUERNSEY, ISLE OF MAN, JERSEY	up to 9kg (1 x 70cl = 1.5kg)	£22
DENMARK, FINLAND, PORTUGAL, AUSTRIA, FRANCE	up to 9kg (1 x 70cl = 1.5kg)	£25
SWITZERLAND, NORWAY ICELAND, ISRAEL	up to 9kg (1 x 70cl = 1.5kg) up to 3kg 3kg to 10kg (1 x 70cl = 1.5kg)	£25 £30 £50
AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, HONG KONG, MALAYSIA, NEW ZEALAND, SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, SOUTH AFRICA, THAILAND	up to 3kg 3kg to 10kg (1 x 70cl = 1.5kg)	£35 £60
CANADA: ALBERTA	up to 3kg 3kg to 10kg (1 x 70cl = 1.5kg)	£30 £50
US:AK, US:CA, US:CT, US:DC, US:DE, US:FL, US:GA, US:ID, US:IL, US:LA, US:ME, US:MD, US:MA, US:NC, US:NE, US:NJ, US:NM, US:NY, US:OR, US:PA, US:RI, US:SC, US:TX, US:VT, US:VA, US:WA, US:WY	1 bottle 2 bottles 3 bottles 4 bottles 5 bottles	£55 £65 £85 £95 £115

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