Kilchoman - 100% Islay - 9yo Ex-Bourbon Single Cask (2023)

KILCHOMAN DISTILLERY - 9yo 100% Islay Single Cask (Ex-Bourbon)

Impex Cask Evolution 03/2024

Islay Single Malt Scotch

Single Cask Release

100% Islay

Cask Number: 452/2014

Date Filled: 20 August.2014

Date Bottled: 1 July 2024

Cask Type: Bourbon Barrel

56.3% ABV

750ml

Non-chill filtered, natural color

For those not familiar with the Kilchoman Distillery, it was the first “new” distillery on Islay in 124 years when it was established in 2005, paving the way for a new crop of young distilleries such as Ardnahoe, Port Ellen, and soon Portintruan, Finlaggan and possibly more. But even when all those distilleries are built, this is still the only farm distillery — they operate a large farm that grows barley, something that is immediately obvious when you visit, literally dodging tractors as you work your way to the parking lot. While they do not have the capacity to grow all the barley they need to make their whiskies, no other distillery on Islay has committed to farming in any meaningful way, certainly nothing like Kilchoman has, which today remains a family-run operation by Anthony Wills and his sons (and now the family of the farm they partnered with and ultimately merged with are involved as well). Truly extraordinary whisky — and Peated Islay single malt Scotch at that.