Kilchoman Distillery, Islay

Seven. It's the one thing everyone knows about Islay. Islay has seven working whisky distilleries. Well now it's time to make that eight.

Kilchoman, (pronounced Kilhoman) was established in 2005, as a farm distillery and is the first new distillery to be built on Islay for 124 years. Kilchoman is one of the smallest distilleries in Scotland with an annual production of 90,000 litres of alcohol. It is the only inland distillery on the Island and is one of only six distilleries in Scotland to have its own floor maltings.

However the key difference at Kilchoman is that the barley is grown on the farm at the distillery, whereas other distilleries purchase barley from around the country.