Hi all,

Hope you are all well and enjoying the onslaught of spring!
Quite a bit to tell you about, so here goes…

London Whisky Lounge Festival 2010
Saturday & Sunday 15th & 16th May 2010
The Royal Horticultural Halls, Vincent Sq., London SW1
11am-3pm, 4pm-8pm Saturday, 12pm-4pm Sunday
£20 per ticket, per session

After years of York hogging our festivals and then the huge successes of Manchester and Newcastle last year, we decided that London is now ready for our coming! The usual benefits of our festivals are present, such as…

– Free Whisky Tasting Glass to use and keep
– Free Festival Guide
– No voucher system. You pays your money and that’s it (aside from masterclasses)
– No further booking fee

In addition to this, we are offering a special 10% discount off general entry tickets until the end of April. That brings the ticket price down to £18 for four hours of superb sampling and schmoozing! If you have never been to one of these events then you really are missing out!

The venue is fantastic and may be familiar to those of you who have been on the festival ‘circuit’ for a while! It is 10 minutes walk from Victoria Tube/Railway Station and is very close to Buckingham Palace.

Details of exhibitors and masterclasses are now on the website – click here to go straight there.

Tastings

Our Global Peat events continue through April with Leeds, London and York still to come – dates below. The response so far has been amazing and they are some of the most interesting tastings yet! As a reminder, we are tasting six variously peated whiskies from all over the world, blind!

Our next series of tastings are again focussing on a single distillery and this time that distillery is one of our youngest but also most exciting. Arran, from the island of the same name, is now 13 years old – a mere babe – and we are helping them celebrate with a series of amazing and exclusive tastings all over the UK, which will also see us hosting their UK ambassador…

‘Peat – A Global Event’ – Tuesday 20th April, The Red Lion, London, SW1
‘Peat – A Global Event’ – Friday 23rd April, The City Inn, Granary Wharf, Leeds
‘Peat – A Global Event’ – Sunday 25th April, Meltons Too, Walmgate, York

‘Speyside Vs Islay’ – Friday 30th April, Blackfriars, Friar St., Newcastle

‘Arran – An Island Story’ – Friday 21st May, Britons Protection, Manchester
‘Arran – An Island Story’ – Friday 28th May, Blackfriars, Newcastle
‘Arran – An Island Story’ – Tuesday 22nd June, Red Lion, London, SW1
‘Arran – An Island Story’ – Friday 25th June, The City Inn, Leeds
‘Arran – An Island Story’ – Sunday 27th June, Meltons Too, York

That’s it for now, but remember all details are on the website and you are now able to book through the website too!

Please also keep an eye out for the 2nd Newcastle Whisky Festival on June 12th – booking now and more news soon!

Keep well and hope to see you soon.
Cheers,
Eddie

Eddie Ludlow
Whisky Evangelist

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