Five years after it was set up, Islay’s new Kilchoman distillery- said possibly to be the site of Scotland’s first distilling of whisky – has launched its first (3 year old) single malt Scotch whisky for sale.
Already attracting a lot of attention and excitement, anyone in Argyll wanting to try it for themselves and not living on Islay can get it at whisky specialist, Loch Fyne Whiskies, in Inveraray.
It can also be bought online through nationwide specialist whisky retailer, The Whisky Shop.
At £45 a bottle, it has all but sold out and distributors could have sold many times the volumes.
This is a great success ad underlines the attractions for the whisky-buying public of a single malt produced from malt to maturation at its branded place name. An inspiring counterpoint to the profit-maximising-mature-elsewhere machine that is Diageo.
Update 14th September: Kilchoman Distillery has been featured on today;s BBC’s Reporting Scotland lunchtime news.
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I was in LFW on Saturday morning and was told that they’re already sold out. It’s not an easy whisky to get your hands on! Couldn’t even get a taste when I was at the distillery on Friday. Thankfully, got a taste of it at Whisky Live on Saturday — great, great 3yr old.
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Really good to see a small producer carrying out an exercise like this where the product is produced from local material distilled and matured on site- the creation of what our French cousins call the “terroir” of a product linking it directly to where it is produced. You cannot buy provenance like that and it is a concept that the big boys who run Diageo are not likely to begin to comprehend. I remember what they tried to do to their own Cardhu!
I hope that the Kilchoman producers have the foresight to lay down some of the product for longer term maturity
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