All parts of the production process for the 100% Islay took place at the distillery – from barley to bottle. The barley is grown, harvested, malted, distilled, matured and bottled at Kilchoman. 

The 5th edition matured in a mixture of fresh and refill bourbon barrels, filled in 2009 and 2010. It was bottled at 50% ABV without chill-filtration or any additional colours.

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.