Make your voice heard and you might be the lucky winner of a bottle of Auchentoshan

This is a blog and blog-owners love when people leave comment on posts. On top of that I launched a small community the other week and I’d love to have more people giving recommendations on whisky, destinations, whiskyclubs, websites and more.
So, in order for something to happen I’ve decided to launch a competition that I [...]

The greeener Macallan Whisky

The Edrington Group has launched an environmentally friendly, limited edition extension to its The Macallan Single Malt Scotch brand. It’s called The Macallan Estate.
The Estate Oak, introduced exclusively for global duty free airports, has been rolled out to support ongoing woodland regeneration in Scotland. For each bottle sold, The Macallan will plant an oak tree on The Macallan [...]

The Queen Mother’s favorite whisky blend gets dressed up

Ian Macleod Distillers has re-packaged and re-positioned Langs Supreme for its re-launch.

The new bottle design, developed by the award winning Graphic Partners Ltd, updates the current traditional Langs Supreme packaging, to create a far more premium design, in keeping with the award winning quality of the blend inside. 
The Langs name is a traditional, independent, long [...]

The latest BenRiach addition has spent 2 1/2 years in Chateau D’Yquem Premier Cru Superior Sauternes wine barrels

The BenRiach distillery are adding a number of new expressions to their whisky range. The first one to see the light is the BenRiach 16 years old Sauternes Finish.
Matured in the traditional style in American bourbon barrels, this Single Malt whisky is then finished in Chateau D’Yquem Premier Cru Superior Sauternes wine barrels (sourced from [...]

Matt Mullenweg featured on Single Malt Scotch Episode

Who?
I think many of you might wonder, who the hell is Matt Mullenweg. Well, he’s actually the reason why this blog exists. In a far far way that is. Matt is the founding developer of Wordpress, the technical platform loved by thousands of bloggers around the world - me included.
So, when I noted that [...]

A new whisky community inside WhiskyGrotto.com

Yesterday I pressed the ‘publish’ button and launched the new WhiskyGrotto community - devoted to thoughts on the world of Whisky and Whiskey. And now there’s a new menu option reading Community up to the right on this blog.
I’ve started the whole thing quite simple and used a tool called BBpress. This means no fancy [...]

Re-branding of Tomatin sneak-previewed as 30 and 40 year old limited editions are added to whisky portfolio

This latest release from Tomatin let’s us know how the 2009 range will be dressed when introduced early next year.
Tomatin follows the trend lead by Auchentoshan, Glenmorangie, Highland Park and others, with more sophisticated and simplistic design and classic typography as the new bottles will be dressed in white, black, silver and red. Personally [...]

Ulf Buxrud’s Japanese Whisky is now available

In January I wrote a short piece on Ulf Buxrud’s new book - Japanese Whisky - Facts, Figures and Taste. Now ulf has published more information on how to get the book. So if you’re into Japanese Whisky or wan’t to get into it. Head over to his site for more information.
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From the Alps to the Pyrennees - The Hills are Alive

The second edition bottling of 18 year old of Bruichladdich Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky has just been bottled and is leaving Islay for the first time.
It was designed to compliment the original 18 year old bottling matured in American oak then refined in Willi Opitz’s Austrian sweet wine casks - which too [...]

Single malt not enough for you? Then try Single & Single

 
Ever heard of Single & Single. I hadn’t until Yossi Schwarts, the founder, messed me on Facebook. A couple of minutes later my mouth was watering.
Single & Single is the brainchild of armchair bottler Yossi Schwarts that believes whisky is for ‘fun and for friends’. Yossi has set out to find casks that are not [...]

Chocolatier Paul Young explains why chocolate and whisky make a perfect combination.

Brightcove is an Internet TV platform. In one way they’re great, in an other they suck.
They are great because they published this episode where chocolatier Paul Young explains why chocolate and whisky make a perfect combination. They suck because I cannot embed it here and have to send you along to their site.
But anyway, here is the [...]

Auchentoshan lets a new whisky website loose and I have some ideas on how to make it better.

Last week I got the word that Auchentoshan released a new website and since I have some comments and Internet is one my daytime speciality I thought I’d stick out my nose and suggest some new ideas on how to make it (and other whisky sites) better.
What first strikes me with the new Auchentoshan website [...]

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