This is the second Port Cask Matured expression, the first, launched in 2014 was one of the most talked about Kilchoman releases in the distillery’s thirteen-year history. 

The 2018 edition is a vatting of thirty ruby port hogsheads filled in 2014 and bottled in 2018 yielding a total of 10,000 bottles. 

Opened in 2005, Kilchoman was the first new distillery to be built on Islay for 124 years. Its proprietors are the Wills family, and the distillery saw a return of the practice of “farm distilling” to the island, with its own barely fields, malt floors and kilns. Today around 25% of its barley requirement is self-fulfilled, and in 2011 they bottled their first 100% Islay release of single farm, single malt. The distillery’s first release came in 2009, and it has cemented a fine reputation ever since.