2 New Islay distilleries!

Jan 25

Posted by Brother Bop in Chapter Chatter

They are Port Charlotte and Kilchoman!

Port Charlotte currently an extension of Bruichladdich, will be the refurbishing of the long-closed Lochindaal distillery (thanks to Brother Balgam for that), and will be using the dismantled equipment from the Inverleven distilleries as well as Bruichladdich’s maltings. Bruichladdich has kicked off the brand by bottling a heavily-peated single malt called PC5, PC6, PC7 & PC8 until the new Port Charlotte distillery becomes operational in the next few years.

Kilchoman (pronounced kilhoman) is an artisan distillery operating on its own farmland (Rockside Farms) and only using local ingredients. Its aim is to be a highly charactered single malt heavy in peat (40 ppm) and become the new classic taste of Islay. Its August 2009 release (a 3yo) won a cask strength award (the BIG award) last month.

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Comments

Brother Bop

January 25th, 2010 at 11:08 AM

One other thing about Kilchoman. They are aging it in fresh bourbon barrels and then finishing it in oloroso sherry hogsheads.

They are distributing it to 15 markets/countries but not the United States as of yet.
Brother Lakeview

February 14th, 2010 at 11:49 AM

Thank you for the knowledge Brother Bop. I am very interested to see what Kilchoman has to offer!
Brother Bop

March 2nd, 2010 at 2:43 PM

Much to my incredible shock I actually posted an entry to this very blog on Kilchoman 5 years ago. Brother Tao followed that up with a homework posting on Kilchoman! I, of course, had completely forgotten all of this when I posted this entry. It ended up being a good idea nonetheless bringing Kilchoman’s name and methods to more recent prominence in our group.

I highly recommend doing a search on Kilchoman and reading the 4 and 5 year old postings on the subject as they contain some interesting details.

As an aside, Tao also posted a homework article on the Glengyle distillery and its malt Kilkerran which you will be sure to (re-)read.