July Events:
July 4th-Closed
July 8th 7:00 PM – Scotch Tasting $50
July 11th 4:00 PM – Scotch Tasting $50
July 29th 7:00 PM – Bourbon Tasting $30
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CHIVAS BROTHERS GIVES ABERLOUR A PREMIUM POLISH
Aberlour, one of the world’s most popular malt whiskies, is to be given a more contemporary and luxe look by owners Chivas Brothers, in a move designed to better reflect the quality and richness of the whisky and clearly position the brand as a rightful player in the luxury spirits category.
The new packaging, designed to enhance on-shelf stand out and recognition, develops a visual consistency across the range on the 12 Year Old, 16 Year Old, 18 Year Old and A’bunadh. It is currently being rolled out on a global basis.
As the leading single malt in France, the world’s biggest Scotch market, Aberlour is committed to excellence in all areas, from product quality to presentation. The upgraded packaging captures the understated but premium essence of the brand and reflects the award-winning quality of the liquid itself. The design is elegant and refined and allows the product to speak for itself.
Neil Macdonald, Brand Director for malts at Chivas Brothers, explains: “ The new packaging for the Aberlour family of single malts strongly establishes the range’s prestige credentials and helps the whiskies to become more visible without being ostentatious, which would go against the grain of our fantastic whisky.
“The result is a perfect balance between tradition and modernity – the sobriety of the new pack adds an element of timelessness to the designs, which reflect the whisky itself.”
The enhanced design elements are as follows:
o The Aberlour logo has been given a more contemporary feel, changing from red to an embossed cream
o The visual of St Drostan’s Well (which symbolises the location of Aberlour, with a heritage stretching back over 1,500 years to an ancient Celtic settlement established by St Drostan) has been recreated in a contemporary visual manner, as opposed to the existing illustration
o The original ‘Let the Deed Show’ seal has been replaced with founder James Fleming’s signature.
Whisky connoisseurs’ favourite Aberlour A’bunadh has also seen its packaging refined to bring out the whisky’s natural characteristics and bring it further into the Aberlour family. Naturally rough paper has been used for the canister and label, while the colour palette is made up of earthy colours that reflect the whisky’s name – A’bunadh means ‘of the origin’.
A’bunadh’s overall design is now consistent with the rest of the range and is one of simplicity, perfectly in keeping with the personality of the product. Acknowledging the desire for whisky knowledge among A’bunadh drinkers, additional technical information about the whisky’s production process has also been added.
Aberlour is the leading brand in France, the world’s biggest Scotch market. Since 1995 it has grown strongly and is now the seventh-most popular malt whisky in the world.
Notes:
Chivas Brothers is the Scotch whisky and premium gin business of Pernod Ricard – the world’s co-leader in wine and spirits. Chivas Brothers is the global leader in luxury Scotch whisky and premium gin. Its portfolio includes Chivas Regal, Ballantine’s, Beefeater Gin, The Glenlivet, Royal Salute, Aberlour, Plymouth Gin, Longmorn, Scapa, 100 Pipers, Clan Campbell, Something Special and Passport.
July Outturn: All your dreams come true
Have you been dreaming of the perfect single cask, single malt? It’s time to make your dreams come true…enjoy 20 new casks this July, along with a selection of SMWS recommendations.
Summery Pair: Buy 39.76 & 7.58 for £119 (save £15.30)
39.76 Delish!
Speyside Lossie
£73 inc. Free P&P
Vanilla, raspberry ripple, candy floss and banana, but it mostly conveyed scents from a lady’s dresser – citrus, floral perfumes (violet, lavender, lily of the valley) soft leather and sandalwood.
7.58 Mandarin dreams and marmalade heaven
Speyside Lossie
£61.30 inc. Free P&P
Delightful discovery of aromatics – soap, sherbet, tea-tree, putty, paint and flying saucers, ginger beer, gentian, dandelions….
Best Buy Pair: Buy 93.39 & 35.36 for £75 (save £9.40)
93.39 Master and commander
Campbeltown
£42.20 inc. Free P&P
Crème caramel, onion chutney, raisin and cake mix; cherry pie, blueberries and prunes came later.
35.36 Life is a beach!
Speyside Lossie
£42.20 inc. P&P
Gentle waves of Demerara, barley sugar, apple strudel and sugared buns licked a shingle beach of aromatic fennel, liquorice and fresh white wine, creating a mellow, smile-inducing nose.
Summer Holiday Case Offer: Buy all six for £308 (save £40)
121.35 Simple yet complex – £39.20 inc. Free P&P
93.39 Master and commander – £42.20 inc. Free P&P
77.20 Honeysuckle, jasmine and fern – £65.40 inc. Free P&P
3.159 Tic-tacs and tar-mac – £65.40 inc. Free P&P
35.40 Horse lick whisky – £70.40 inc. Free P&P
2.78 Kissed up by sweet promises – £65.40 inc. Free P&P
Islay Lover?
Three new Islay casks added: 3.159, 33.88 and 53.141
Closed Distillery:
Lowland favourite 25.53
Don’t forget: Sample four July Outturn drams @
Aberdeen Malmaison, Birmingham & Brighton Hotel du Vin
Enjoy 121.35, 3.159 along with 39.76 and 7.58.
SMWS Whisky Tasting & Events
Glenmorangie Tasting – Queen Street, Thu 1 July
World Cup Quarter Final Viewing – Queen Street, Fri 2 July
World Cup Quarter Final Viewing – Queen Street, Sat 3 July
New Outturn Open Tasting – London, Sat 3 July
New Outturn & Sunday Roast Tasting – The Vaults, Sun 4 July
New Outturn Open Tasting – London, Mon 5 July
World Cup Semi Final Viewing – Queen Street, Tue 6 July
World Cup of Drams – Queen Street, Wed 7 July
World Cup Final: Viewing & BBQ – Queen Street, Sun 11 July
World Cup Final Viewing – London, Sun 11 July
Whisky Galore with matched drams – London, Wed 14 July
Best of Edinburgh Tasting – London, Fri 23 July
Visit the Society at http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships
Four Roses, Yeasts and Mashbills
The Britons Protection, Manchester
Friday July 30th 2010, 7.30pm
The Britons Protection
£20.00 / ticket
Julian Howard from Inspirit makes a first visit to the ‘BP’, arguably the Lancashire home of Bourbon. He is going to introduce a fascinating tasting of not only ‘bottled’ products, but also cask samples that demonstrate the amount of forethought and research that goes into putting Four Roses Bourbons together. The distillery uses a unique recipe of not only yeasts, which most Scottish distilleries could learn a thing or two from, but also mashbills. A mashbill, basically, is the recipe of grains that will make up the Bourbon – the proportion of corn, rye and barley used.
YOU are going to have a unique insight into the world of a Kentucky distiller and his secret recipes. This is bound to be a fantastic evening and tickets as always are limited.
As always each tasting is designed to be fun and enjoyable for all levels of whisky drinker, and is not a lecture. You will almost certainly learn something new every time, but if you don’t walk out with a smile on your face then we have done something wrong!
You will not be sent a ticket through the post. Your details will be added to the event register and all you need to do is print the payment confirmation page and bring it with you to the event.
Whisky-rating.com Relaunches Site as Dramming.com
About a year ago a new site entered the whisky blogosphere: www.whisky-rating.com, dedicated to publish ratings and tasting notes for as many whiskies as possible. But apart from that it also was a regular whisky blog covering all aspects of the water of life from barley to marketing.
Why the name change?
Publishing ratings and tasting notes for whisky was the motivation for starting my blog, hence the name Whisky Rating. But over the months I recognised that this name only reflects part of what I am doing with my blog. In addition to that I have some ideas to broaden the scope of the site even more. So I thought it would be better to find a name for the site that encompasses everything you can imagine about whisky.
Dramming – Everything Whisky – The new name and motto for my blog is the perfect headline for a site that is devoted to bring you the best possible information about whisky.
Why a complete relaunch?
During the last year of blogging I had many ideas to improve the look and the user friendliness of my site, When the idea of changing the name of my blog was born, I decided that this was a perfect opportunity to do all changes together instead of turning the blog into a construction site for months.
What’s Old, What’s New?
All content of the old site has been transferred to dramming.com. You will find all my blog articles as well as all tasting notes and ratings that I have published so far.
The layout of the site is entirely new. Instead of the classic chronological list of blog entries, the front page presents a magazine-like overview about the most recent postings in all categories.
An exciting addition to the site is the new distillery section that is accessible through the top navigation menu. Grouped by the classic whisky regions, each distillery page consists of a short fact sheet and an automatically aggregated list of tasting notes for this distillery as well as mentions in the blog articles. (Please note that there is a lot of work involved with this, so it will take a while until all distillery pages will be available). This allows you to see everything that’s on the site for a given distillery with just one click.
See you on
Oliver Klimek
Owner of whisky-rating.com and dramming.com
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Glenrothes Tasting at The Whisky Exchange, in Vinopolis
Monday 12th July, 7:00pm
Tickets £25.00 each
For this month’s regular tasting, we have the illustrious Ronnie Cox from Berry Bros. & Rudd coming to share his knowledge and passion for the Glenrothes Speyside Malt. Berry Bros. & Rudd have been the official bottler for Glenrothes since 1987, hence the connection between the two companies. Ronnie is one of the most knowledgeable and entertaining individuals we’ve had the pleasure to work with in this business of whisky. Having grown up in a family of distillers, he found greater pleasure in discussing, promoting and generally making a big fuss about malt whisky, a sentiment we very much share.
For those of you unfamiliar with Glenrothes, it is perhaps the epitome of the Speyside style of malt whisky. Rich, fruity and elegant, with subtle spices and often matured in ex-sherry casks, Glenrothes is released as single malt in batches from select vintages that are felt to stand out amongst their impressive range of casks. At this tasting, we will be sampling:
– Glenrothes Select Reserve in a bespoke cocktail
– Glenrothes Alba Reserve
– Glenrothes Robur Reserve
– Glenrothes 1998 (brand new)
– Glenrothes 1991
– Glenrothes 1985
– Glenrothes 1978
– And something very special indeed.
Tickets for this event are on sale as of 5:00pm, Monday 5th July. They’re priced at £25.00 each, limited to 2 places per booking and sold on a first come, first served basis.
The Malt Maniacs, in a burst of energy, have published another epistle, this time on “Does Age Matter?” by Serge Valentin. http://www.maltmaniacs.org/whisky-articles/Malt-Maniacs-2010-04-Does-the-age-of-Scotch-whisky-matter.pdf
LOUISVILLE, KY—Heaven Hill Distilleries, the nation’s largest independent family-owned and operated distilled spirits supplier, announced a partnership today with the Louisville Arena Sports and Entertainment Properties (LASEP) to sponsor two new clubs at the KFC Yum! Center, the state-of-the-art arena opening in downtown Louisville in the Fall of 2010. Heaven Hill signed a 10-year commitment to create and sponsor the Evan Williams Bourbon Bar and the Burnett’s V Lounge, two upscale clubs that will be located at the East and West Event Levels of the arena and accessible only to lower level Club Seat Holders.
The new KFC Yum! Center, which will offer state-of-the-art amenities and technology, is one of the centerpieces of downtown Louisville’s redeveloped waterfront and has garnered national praise for its design and functionality. Heaven Hill, a proud corporate citizen of Kentucky and Louisville since the company’s founding just after the end of Prohibition, will be creating its first branded club concepts to support two of the distiller’s top brands—Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, the second best selling and fastest growing Bourbon in America, and Burnett’s Vodka, one of the top selling vodkas in the nation and the 14th largest overall distilled spirits brand in the US.
The Evan Williams Bourbon Bar, a brand name which honors Kentucky’s first distiller of 1783—whose distillery stood within 300 yards of the new arena on the banks of the Ohio River—will be rendered in warm brown and red Bourbon tones featuring barrelhead décor and wood paneling. It will feature Evan Williams Bourbon, the second-largest selling Bourbon in the United States and the world, as well as several other top brands from the world’s second-largest inventory of aging American Whiskeys, such as Elijah Craig, Old Fitzgerald and Bernheim Wheat Whiskey.
The Burnett’s V Lounge, named after Burnett’s Vodka, the company’s top selling brand, will utilize a clean and crisp brushed silver and white color palette with a design reminiscent of the “ultra-lounges” of Las Vegas. It will offer a full range of traditional cocktails as well as newly-developed drinks featuring Burnett’s Vodka and Gin, PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur, Hpnotiq Liqueur and Lunazul Tequila. Both clubs will be available exclusively to holders of lower level Club Seats, and will also offer a range of dining options.
“Heaven Hill Distilleries’ partnership with the Louisville Arena Authority is tangible evidence of our company’s commitment to the Louisville community, where our distillery and sales and marketing headquarters are located,” said Max L. Shapira, President of Heaven Hill. “Through our Evan Williams Bourbon Bar and our Burnett’s V Lounge, we are pleased to be part of this exciting new addition to Louisville and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.”
Founded in 1934, Bardstown, KY-based Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc. (www.heavenhill.com) is the nation’s largest independent, family-owned and operated spirits producer and marketer and the world’s second-largest holder of Kentucky Bourbon. Heaven Hill’s diversified portfolio of brands includes The Christian Brothers Brandies; Evan Williams and Elijah Craig Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskeys; Burnett’s Vodkas and Gin; Hpnotiq Liqueur; PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur; Lunazul and Two Fingers Tequilas, and Dubonnet Aperitif.
Heaven Hill reminds you to “Think Wisely. Drink Wisely.”
Open invite to Glenfiddich Brand Ambassador story telling evening
This is a quick message and open invite to a story telling event with the Glenfiddich brand ambassador, Jamie Milne on July 15th in London.
As a quick introduction, I’m Richard Galbraith, I work for a communications agency in London called Ditto, we help brands tell their story through multiple mediums both offline and online.
Each month we hold a story telling event called Campfire in our own studio in north London, called the Lighthouse. So far this year we have played host to a number of different people, from Dr Barry Gibb, originally a molecular biologist and neuroscientist before leaving academic research to eventually become Science Multimedia Editor at The Wellcome Trust, through to Agents of Change a group of renegade artists who’s art is in changing space itself.
Jamie
This time around, Thursday July 15th, as mentioned, we have Jamie Milne, brand ambassador for Glenfiddich in the UK and as you can imagine, a passionate whisky lover. We thought you and your readers may be interested in coming down to the Campfire event where Jamie will talk on how he went from an aeronautical engineering degree to travelling the UK helping people learn about whisky on behalf of the worlds most popular single malt.
There will be (some) samples, food, and generally a good evening to be had by all. A short video introduction we did with Jamie is on our video channel here:
http://www.ditto.tv/campfire/category/storyteller/jamie-milne-storyteller/
If you are interested in coming, or think you may blog about the event to let your readers know, can you let me know, and if you have any other questions, feel free to get in touch.
The event will start at around 7:30 with people taking their seats around 8 for the experience, there is no need for a ticket or to book, only to come down with a relaxed attitude with the intention of meeting some interesting people and having some fun.
The address of our studio is: The Lighthouse, Canonbury Yard, 190 New North Road, London N1 7BJ – just around the corner from the New North Star pub.
Thanks for your time, looking forward to hearing back from you and if you have any other questions or comments then please let me know.
Regards,
Richard
