New from Glenglassaugh Distillery – Scotch Whisky News
Whisky Bible Award and my latest Travelogue Entry
October 11th, 2009
Jim Murray’s latest edition of his Whisky Bible came out this week and once again we did well with our 40 year old winning the award for the Best 35 – 40 year old single malt scotch (multiple cask). I am not sure about the multiple cask as it is a single cask bottling but I am very pleased with the accolade and in particular with Jim’s statement “it is as if this malt has gone through a 40 year marrying process: the interlinking of flavours and styles is truly beyond belief. One of the great world whiskies for 2010”
While not winning an overall award, Jim was very complimentary about the 21 year old listing it in his Liquid Gold Winners and also setting us a challenge “a malt which simply sings on the palate and a fabulous benchmark for the new owners to try and achieve in 2030!”
Last weekend was Pot Still Festival in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. We had sent across our new stand which was in use for the first time. Unfortunately the empty octave cask which we had also sent didn’t arrive in time (UK Royal Mail let us down) so I couldn’t show visitors exactly what these casks are like. I am hoping though that we manage to get it to Wild Whisky Weekend in Denmark for next Saturday. Our supply of “Blush” was also a bit tight as Van Wees had been selling it well and had only a small amount left for sampling.
The event is much smaller than Whisky Live Paris and those attending, in general, had not heard of Glenglassaugh. Once again though everyone was keen to hear about us, interested in what we had achieved and very surprised by the excellent quality of the new make spirits and extremely complimentary about the aged whiskies. This is another whisky event that I look forward to attending next year and renewing newly-made friendships.
This week has been a very busy week for us with orders despatched to 3 new destinations for us, Alberta in Canada, Denmark and Norway and our second order to Lithuania.
This week I am travelling to Lithuania where one of the Scaent Group’s company’s is launching the magazine “Intelligent Life” and is pouring our Spirit Drink products at the launch. I will be helping at the launch and hopefully this will be the start of building a good business into Eastern Europe. Being a country that I have never visited I am really looking forward to the trip.
News of this visit and next weekends trip to Denmark will be the topic of a future blog.
Slange
Stuart Nickerson
