Hello Fellow Scotch Lovers –
 
With Thanksgiving and the December holidays bearing down on us, we want to make it easy for you to stock up on whisky for your holiday guests.

So until the end of October, we’re offering FREE FedEx Ground shipping on all orders over $75 placed in our store.

To get your free FedEx Ground shipping, enter code FSLOct10 in the “Gift Certificate/Coupon Code” field in your shopping cart when checking out.

I hope you’ll take advantage of this offer, and save yourself that trip to your local liquor store.

Yours,

Doug Stone
Founder
www.ForScotchLovers.com

The mission of the Whisky Explorers Club is to introduce our members to a variety of great whiskies they may never have experienced before, free of any pre-conceived notion of a “brand”, price as an indicator of quality or a prior experience with a type of whisky, and to share those experiences with others.

Loch Fyne Whiskies News has stocked two new items, ‘Whisky Bible & Whisky Yearbook 2011’

These two great books are now updated for 2011

Best regards,
Loch Fyne Whiskies www.lfw.co.uk

October 2010, Edinburgh: DRAMBUIE® is celebrating winning two Gold Medals in the prestigious Drinks International Travel Retail Excellence Awards at TFWA Cannes for its new innovative addition to its Travel Retail range – DRAMBUIE® 15. 

Revealed at the world’s largest travel retail exhibition, Drambuie 15 was awarded Gold Medals in two of the most sought after categories, Best Drinks Launch at TFWA Cannes 2010 and Best Drinks Launch of the Year.

Exclusively for drink products, the Drinks International Awards is one of the most established awards in the travel retail sector, recognising the best launches, marketing, packaging and retailers in the world of travel retail.  Success in the high-status awards follows last year’s Gold Medal, also in the Best Drinks Launch at TFWA category, for Drambuie’s  premium  Travel Retail exclusive The Royal Legacy of 1745™.  

Will Birkin, Senior Brand Manager for Drambuie Liqueur Co. commented: “To be awarded two Gold Medals in these influential awards is a fantastic achievement.  That Drambuie has won Best Drinks Launch Gold Medals for the last two years in a row is unprecedented, and a real credit to Drambuie’s new innovative and forward thinking attitude.”

In addition, Drambuie 15 received Silver Medal recognition from both The Spirits Business Travel Retail Awards and Travel Retail Masters Awards, winning medals in the Best Travel Retail Liqueur and Best Liqueur categories 2010 respectively.

Designed to appeal to Malt Whisky drinkers, Drambuie 15 is a connoisseur expression of Drambuie, drawn from the company’s finest selection of 15 Year Old Speyside Malts. Selected for their soft, complex fragrance and flavour, the rare Speyside Malts ideally complement and balance the herbs and spicy aromas of Drambuie’s famed secret recipe.

With a price position above Drambuie original, Drambuie 15 will appeal directly to existing Drambuie customers trading up and new Malt Whisky experimenters.  Drambuie 15 will be available exclusively through select international travel retail outlets (1 litre, 43% ABV).

The Drambuie Liqueur Co. Ltd is an independent, family owned business that has been producing the world-renowned Drambuie Liqueur since 1909. Drambuie is regarded as one of the Top 5 Liqueurs ever produced (Paul Pacult, Spirit’s Journal, 2008) and remains a Top 50 global spirit in volume (IWSR, 2008).

A full list of winners for the 2010 Drinks International Awards can be found on the website www.drinksint.com

The Drambuie Liqueur Company stand at Cannes TWFA 17-22 October 2010

Riviera Village, Stand RF9

For more information visit www.drambuie.com

http://www.thewhiskyshow.com/2010/

www.ralfy.com ‘releases’ an exclusive, rare, and limited edition vid-cask of  WhiskyReview 156 – Elijah Craig 12yo     … yummy !!!

WhiskyFest Updates (from John Hansell)

WhiskyFest™ New York is a sell-out!
It will be a great evening!  Why not make it a great week?  Plan to attend WhiskyWeek™ New York.  The schedule of events is listed below.  Please visit our website for further details, pricing, etc.
 
Thursday, November 4
Famous Grouse Tasting  | Park Avenue Liquor Store | 292 Madison | NY

Bruichladdich Tasting with Jim McEwan
Keens Steakhouse | 72 West 36 Street | New York

Friday, November 5
Glen Garioch, Bowmore, The Glenrothes Tasting
Park Avenue Liquor Store | 292 Madison | New York

Meet the Distiller: Jim McEwan of Bruichladdich
Astor Center | 399 Lafayette Street (at East 4th Street) | New York

Monday, November 8
Compass Box Tasting
Park Avenue Liquor Store | 292 Madison | New York

Town Wine & Spirits Tasting
Featuring Alistair Walker of BenRiach and GlenDronach, Andrew Shand of Duncan Taylor & Co., and Ranald Watson of Springbank.
Wannamoisett Country Club | 96 Hoyte Avenue | Rumford, RI 02916

Tuesday, November 9
13th Annual WhiskyFest™ New York
6:30 – 9:30pm
New York Marriott Marquis | Times Square | New York
www.whiskyfest.com

Wednesday, November 10
Classic Malts tasting with Spike McClure
Park Avenue Liquor Store | 292 Madison | New York

Mortlach 12 Bottling Note
A 12 year old Mortlach with a lovely deep hue from sherry butt number 3554. This was distilled in July 1994 and bottled in May 2007 for the Old Malt Cask range. A release of 654 bottles.
£34.95

Port Ellen 25 Bottling Note
A 20cl Advance Sample from Douglas Laing. This was distilled at the Port Ellen distillery in November 1982 and aged for 25 years in sherry butt number 4673. It was bottled in September 2008.
£38.95

www.masterofmalt.com

Loch Fyne Whiskies Bottling of the Year 2011

Of all the bottles we stock, and there are plenty of them, we elect just one as our bottling of the year. How do we decide? There are a variety of factors that come under consideration but by far the biggest is the response from our customers.

The Loch Fyne Whiskies Bottling of the Year 2011 is Old Pulteney 17yo and to celebrate there’s also £5 off the normal price:

 Old Pulteney 17yo DEAL!
 46% abv
 was £46.00

 DEAL!

Price is  £41.00 inc vat  £34.89 ex vat

Visit Loch Fyne Whiskies at www.lfw.co.uk

Laphroaig 25yo 1984/2009 (51%, OB, Oloroso & American Oak Casks)

A gentle nose filled with peat smoke and iodine, the ocean and some simply beautiful wood spice all back with brandy, coal smoke (not too much), cocoa and toffee. The higher alcohol is simply not evident; it is all a grand collection of aromas. Time in the glass allows the cocoa and the peat smoke to evolve together working well with the toffee/honey sweetness (but not overly sweet).  Simply sensational. With a small splash of water the nose opens up and becomes a little more accessible with a little coal smoke. The taste is warming, vibrant with some really excellent peat smoke and Fry’s cocoa along with some oak spice (a tinge of red cedar too?). Wonderful. Concentration has been lost…another sip is needed… The taste with water (just a touch) is much as before however the smokey characteristics and a little lemon are a little more pronounced. The finish is a mix of sweet and sour quickly followed by the peat smoke and cocoa which both head towards the horizon like trains tracks. After a few minutes some really good malt slowly emerges. The finish carries on forever. At the final stages some chocolate is detected.

Simply outstanding. A commonality with the whole line from the Quarter cask to the 18yo is quite evident. Shockingly good. It’s no wonder is Laphroaig one of the great distilleries…and deservedly so.

$550 and worth every penny.

Score 93 points

www.laphroaig.com

Laphroaig 25 Year Old

G&M: Connoisseurs Choice “The First Distillery Tasting of the Semester!”

 Gordon & Macphail Tasting: “Connoisseurs Choice”

TICKETED EVENT – 50 PEOPLE MAX!

Tickets (£3 each) go on SALE Wednesday 20th Oct (afternoon) Available from Butchart Centre Reception

Location: Butchart Centre, University Road, Old Aberdeen, Time and Date: 7pm – Wednesday 27th October 2010
What to Bring: Ticket + Membership Card + money for raffle!

University of Aberdeen Malt Whisky Society
The Butchart Centre
University Road
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire AB24 3UT

aberdeenwhisky@googlemail.com