It seems 5 matches 30

America’s most influential whisky taster has placed the PC5 from Bruichladdich, a 5 year old Islay whisky in the same league as single malts 7 times it’s age.
It’s The Malt Advocate, published quarterly by John Hansell, that has rated PC5, the new peaty whisky from Bruichladdich as: “Outstanding! The best for it’s style. [...]

Diageo plans new distillery

The Scotsman reports on Diages £40 million plan to build Scotland’s first major distillery for three decades.
Diageo, the world’s largest drinks company, believes the facility is needed to help meet anticipated long-term demand for whisky in growing markets like Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico.
The new state-of-the-art distillery will be built at Roseisle, between Elgin [...]

A new site from The Macallan

Summer seems to be the time of “update our site” And now it’s The Macallan that have redesigned their brand online.
The new site doesn’t offer that much i comparison with the old one. However, there is more information about the story behind The Macallan and the new site also features more video content than before.
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The Swedish archipelago and the lack of Whisky

The summer has finally arrived to Sweden and news from the world of whisky is not that easy to find. So, I thought I’d take the opportunity to tell you a short story about myself and the Swedish Systembolaget.
Me, my girlfriend Nina and our daughter Ebba spends most of the summers in the Swedish archipelago. [...]

Knock knock…who’s there? Ancnoc’s new site is here.

Today Ancnoc offically launched their new website. Along with the ordinary content, a different section is the possibility to make yourself aquatinted with Ancnoc ambassadors.

To find these eleven ambassadors, Ancnoc ran a campaign in Northern Scotland. The purpose is that they all represent different areas of the website. Each of them has some sort of [...]

Battlehill Range from Duncan Taylor

Duncan Taylor has released a collection of youthful whiskies under the Battlehill label
The Battlehill is on the outskirts of Huntly and is renowned for its skirmishes between the clans, and of course our Sassenach neighbours. The Battlehill is an important landmark in Scotland’s history!
Within the range there are our finest 6 to 9 year old [...]

How to organise a Scotch Whisky Tasting

When I first started to drink Whisky, an important step for me was to learn how to drink the wonderful spirit.
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) promotes, protects and represents the interests of the whisky industry in Scotland and around the world. Here is their advice on how to organise your own Whisky tasting.
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Tasting [...]

21 years from Glengoyne

Glengoyne Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky has launched its brand new 21 Years Old.
The Malt is guaranteed to be 100% matured in prestigious first fill European oak sherry casks, thus ensuring the optimum Glengoyne quality in every cask.
The casks (all butts) were hand picked by a specialist distillery team led by Robbie Hughes - Distillery [...]

One small step for man, a giant leap for…eh… the collector

The Smallest Bottles of Whisky in the World - as seen in the Guinness Book of World Records, have arrived over at Just Miniatures
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A Capercaillie on the run

The Famous Grouse Experience has agreed to be the main sponsor for the local Crieff 10K race for the next three years.

Due to take place on Sunday, 15th July, The Famous Grouse Crieff 10K will be started by The Famous Grouse, and, although he won’t be participating in the race itself, he will be running [...]

The Macallan hits the jackpot with the Fine Oak range

The Macallan today announced the phenomenal sales success of its Fine Oak range, which now accounts for one in five of all sales of The Macallan since its world-wide launch in August 2004. Annual sales have grown rapidly and, for year ending April 2007, hit new record levels with a 14% increase in the last [...]

BenRiach Release 3 New Smokin’ Wood Finishes

News came in from BenRiach. They have now confirmed details of their latest releases, a range of 3 heavily peated 12 year old BenRiachs, originally matured in American oak, then finished in either sherry, port or dark rum casks.
Following their tradition of giving our peated expressions Latin names (which started with Curiositas and Authenticus), the new releases are called ‘Heredotus [...]

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