Toronto’s premiere whisky tasting gala is back

Tickets now on sale at Roy Thomson Hall. If you buy your ticket before April 1st, Quote “SOTEB” to receive a 10% discount.
The event takes place Saturday, May 12 from 6:30-10:30pm when more than 100 single malt whiskies will be poured at this annual tasting event!
Tickets are $105 (Don’t forget the Quote above) and include [...]

The Famous Grouse Auctions Signed Bottles in Aid of Comic Relief

The personalised bottle of The Famous Grouse Finest with red nosed Grouse
The Famous Grouse, Scotland’s favourite whisky, is putting up for auction a bottle signed by Dame Judi Dench in aid of this year’s Comic Relief.
The unique bottle - personalised to read ‘The Famous Grouse BAFTA’s 2007 - was signed by the sixth-time BAFTA award [...]

Balblair goes luxury

Karen Walker raises a toast to one of her distillery’s oldest tipples.
Inver House Distillers has relaunched its Balblair malt as it chases demand for luxury items abroad.
The firm, which owns the Old Pulteney and Speyburn labels, is investing six figures to promote the brand.
Selling the bottles for up to £89, Balblair has been rebranded, repackaged [...]

An odd collectors confession

Running around on the Internet today I found this fun story about a different kind of collector. Haven’t we all gotten a glass of what could have been a wonderful experience, but then, a sip later, it all ended with a very ugly face and a promise to never try things with strange names again. [...]

Mr Jack Daniel goes Posh

Gentleman Jack Rare Tennessee Whiskey’s Refining New Look
The Jack Daniel Distillery has unveiled its new Gentleman Jack Rare Tennessee Whiskey bottle that officials said would bring a new “refinement” to the brand’s outward appearance. But they were quick to point out one thing that has not and will not change: the whiskey.
The redesigned Gentleman Jack [...]

Longmorn gets a new suit

Pernod Ricard-owned Chivas Brothers has announced the creation of Longmorn 16 Year Old as the main driver in a repositioning of Longmorn as a global, super-premium malt whisky.
Longmorn 16yo replaces the existing 15yo, known to connoisseurs as the ‘Hidden Jewel’ of Speyside in Scotland. The product will be available in international markets, including travel [...]

Two cases of MacKinlay’s preserved in Ice for 100 years

They say whisky matures with age…but leaving it embedded in the Antarctic ice for almost 100 years may be going a bit far.
Two cases of MacKinlay’s Rare Old Whisky that Ernest Shackleton’s team abandoned on their failed 1908 expedition to the South Pole have been uncovered intact.
Read the full story at This Is London
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Port Charlotte Distillery on Islay Confirmed

Bruichladdich Distillery has now officially announced its plans to create the new distillery at Port Charlotte.
The distillery will be built, subject to planning permission, on the site of the Lochindaal Distillery that ceased production in 1929. The new name will be Port Charlotte Distillery, one of the original names of the 1829 enterprise. The Distillery [...]

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