We’ve survived another year, and if the doomsayers are right, this could be our last, so we’d better enjoy it! I have two pressing reasons for you to enjoy life this January, even if it’s cold enough to freeze your breath outside. The first is our 6th annual Robbie Burns Supper which will be taking place on the 26th of January. That’s right Caledonians, the fête of Scotland’s favourite son is nearly upon us. I’ve included some information on our Burns Supper, Scots Wha Hae below, and there will be much more in the next Malt Messenger due out on Tuesday.

The second and even more pressing reason to celebrate is our annual Year End Super Sale! We only have two sales a year (the other is in November) and we have some incredible deals on whisky this Friday, Saturday and Sunday… Selected whiskies are between 7 and 25% off. The sale is only available in-store and online (no phone orders will be accepted). The full list of sale items can be found below, but there are three deals worth highlighting:

1.       Springbank 1996 KWM Oloroso Cask: Our Spirngbank cask, which has been a huge hit over the last year, is 25% off. We normally sell it for $109.99, but this weekend, and this weekend only you can have it for $82.49 +GST. Less than 75 of the original 660 bottles remain!

2.       G&M Glen Grant 1966: This cask is one of the more elegant bottles of whisky we’ve ever stocked. It was chosen because for a whisky of more than 40 years, it wasn’t even close to over the hill. Smooth and soft with deft sherry notes and delicate citrus, we originally listed this whisky at $499.99, but dropped it to $449.99 a few months back. This weekend you can buy one of the less than 30 remaining bottles of our Glen Grant for just $337.49 + GST, 25% off our last list price!

3.       Glendronach 1995 KWM PX Sherry Cask: Our Glendronach cask, which contained closed to 660 bottles is now half sold after just two months in store. Normally selling for $114.99 it will only be 10% off this weekend, but while supplies last we will be giving away a Glendronach Glencairn glass with every bottle sold (the glass itself is an $18 value). Our Glendronach is the chocolatiest whisky I’ve ever tasted, and is an incredible value when compared to other sherried whiskies like Macallan 18 Year (also on sale) which lists for $175.00. I expect this cask to sell out before the summer.  Don’t hesitate!

These three whiskies and many of the others on sale are open for sampling! Hope to see you this weekend!

Slainté!

Andrew Ferguson

SCOTS WHA HAE! – Wednesday January 26th 7PM – $99

Caledonians Unite! It’s time to celebrate all things Scottish. Isle of Arran is the featured distillery for our 6th annual Robbie Burns Supper, and Andrew Hogan is our special guest. We’ll have bagpipes, poetry, haggis with neeps and tatties and six amazing single malts all from Arran, including a couple of new single cask bottlings selected by and exclusive bottled for KWM! One’s a bourbon cask and the other sherry. The tasting panel couldn’t decide between the two, and the price was right so we decided to bottle both! Our Burns Supper has grown into one of the most respected in town, and there is no previous whisky experience required. So buy a ticket and join us at Fort Calgary for a night of mirth, whisky and a lot of merry making!

More details to come in the next Malt Messenger.

YEAR END SUPER SALE

Sale Rules and Conditions:

1.       Applies only to marked items.

2.       Applies only to in-store items with the exception of exclusives.

3.       Items must be paid for at the time of purchase.

4.       Items may only be purchased online, in store or by e-mail (no phone orders).

5.       All sale items are final sale.

6.       Sale will begin at midnight on Thursday (tonight) and end at midnight on Sunday night.

Single Malt Whisky

1.       G&M KWM Glen Grant 1966 41 Year – Bottled exclusively for KWM this is massively complex whisky that has even after more than 40 years retained the delicate citrus notes which typify whiskies from this distillery. Of the 134 individually numbered bottles we have less than 30 left. The whisky comes packaged in a rosewood box with an etched glass window. This is the best deal of our entire sale! – Regular $449.99 – SAVE 25%

2.       Springbank 1996 KWM Oloroso Cask – Going, going, almost gone… our second cask of Springbank has been a huge success! Of the 660 bottles in the cask there are fewer than 75 remaining. If I were to sum up the experience I would have to say it is a little like crossing Macallan 18 with Lagavulin 16. You get the rich spicy sherry notes of the Macallan and the clean salty smoke of Lagavulin. If you haven’t tried it yet, don’t hesitate, before you know it, it will be gone. And at this price, how can you resist! – – Regular $109.99 – SAVE 25% 

3.       Glendronach 1995 KWM PX Sherry Finish – This recent private bottling is our best selling whisky by a long shot these days! Nearly half of our cask sold between the months of November and December.  It is massively chocolaty, rich, chewy and very smooth for its strength of 52.2%. While supplies last we are giving away Glendronach glasses with ever bottle purchased! – Regular $114.99 – SAVE 10%

4.       BenRiach 15 Year Rum Finish – Matured 14 years in Bourbon and finished for a final year in Jamaican Dark Rum casks. – Regular $82.49 – SAVE 15%

5.       BenRiach 15 Year Tawny Port Finish – Finished for one year in tawny port pipes the whisky is dark and chocolaty. – Regular $82.49 – SAVE 15%

6.       Bowmore Tempest Cask Strength – Until our Glendronach cask came in this was our best selling whisky. Creamy, buttery with salty-earth-peat! – Regular $81.99 – SAVE 15%

7.       A.D. Rattray Strathmill 31 Year – Regular $211.99 – SAVE 15%

8.       A.D. Rattray Tomintoul 30 Year – Regular $211.99 – SAVE 15%

9.       Duthies Caol Ila 13 Year – One of the finest independent bottlings of Caol Ila around, very earthy with some hints of sweet. Exclusive to KWM – Regular $87.49 – SAVE 15%

10.   Duthies Craggamore 15 Year – Big wet leaves and grassy notes with malt and sweet honey. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $94.999 – SAVE 15%

11.   Duthies Glen Scotia 17 Year – Silver medal winner in a not to distant issue of Whisky Magazine this whisky is a little steely but overall a complex and very well balanced bottling from Scotland’s most neglected distillery. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $101.99 – SAVE 15%

12.   Duthies Laphroaig 11 Year – Not quite as medicinal as your regular Laphroaigh it has plenty of peat, smoke and salt to balance out the oak. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $98.99 – SAVE 15%

13.   Amrut Double Cask – 96pts Jim Murray, exclusive to KWM. – Regular 124.99 – SAVE 10%

14.   BenRiach 15 Year Madeira Finish – One of our best selling whiskies this dram is sweet, spicy and very soft. – Regular $82.49 – SAVE 10%

15.   Cadenhead Classic Green Label – The closest thing to Laphroaig 10 year! – Regular $72.99 – SAVE 10%

16.   Caol Ila 10 Year Unpeated Cask Strenght – At 65.1% you would think it was a monster, but in reality very soft with big notes of white chocolate and vanilla. – Regular $ 103.99 – SAVE 10%

17.   Compass Box Hedonism Maximus – Only 24 bottles of this exclusive to KWM whisky in Canada, it is a Blended Grains whisky composed of 70% 41 year old Invergordon and 30% 29 year old Carsebridge. A lovely smooth desert whisky. – Regular $ 259.99 – SAVE 10%

18.   Compass Box Peat Monster Reserve – Not just a different, peatier recipe than the original, but in a bottle twice the size too. 92pts Jim Murray. Exlcusive to KWM. – Regular $ 154.99 – SAVE 10%

19.   Coopers Choice Glen Mhor 1982 – Regular $178.49 – SAVE 10%

20.   A.D. Rattray Glenglassaugh 29 Year – Regular $198.99 – SAVE 10%

21.   Duthies Auchroisk 20 Year – An excellent, complex and balanced whisky from an obscure distillery. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $96.99 – SAVE 10%

22.   Duthies Bowmore 17 Year – This whisky harkens back to the old distillery 17 year, and is a very elegant smoky dram. Exclusive to KWM.  – Regular $90.99 – SAVE 10%

23.   Duthies Hazelburn 9 Year – A recent Gold Medal winner from Whisky Magazine this little dram is soft and fruity with jujube notes on the palate. Hazelburn is the name given to triple distilled Springbanks. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $84.99 – SAVE 10%

24.   Duthies Ledaig 13 Year – A somewhat raunchy, medicinal and massively complex bottling of heavily peated Tobermory. This dram will not disappoint, but is not for the faint of heart. – Regular $79.99 – SAVE 10%

25.   Duthies Longmorn 19 Year – Burnt caramel, vanilla and smoke with soft fruity notes, this is a smooth, elegant dram. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $96.99 – SAVE 10%

26.   Edradour Caledonia – A lovely mix of both Bourbon and Oloroso sherry notes gives this dram from Scotland’s smallest distillery layers of soft, smooth, complex notes. – Regular $93.99 – SAVE 10%

27.   English Whisky Company Chapter 3 – Regular $61.49 – SAVE 10%

28.   English Whisky Company Chapter 4 – Regular $61.49 – SAVE 10%

29.   G&M Cask Strength Imperial 1997 – Big sherry notes from this single cask first fill sherry. A very reasonably priced whisky from a now closed distillery. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $114.99 – SAVE 10%

30.   G&M Conn Choice Convalmore 1984 – Very soft and smooth with loads of creamy oak and big vanilla notes. The distillery which sits on the grounds of Balvenie is closed and will not likely ever reopen. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $182.99 – SAVE 10%

31.   G&M Conn Choice Glen Keith 1993 – White fruits, chocolate and sweet vanilla abound on this little dram. Distillery closed just before the millennium, and is not expected to reopen. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $87.99 – SAVE 10%

32.   Glendronach 14 Year Sauternes Finish – Regular $82.49 – SAVE 10%

33.   Glendronach 14 Year Virgin Oak Finish – Regular $82.49 – SAVE 10%

34.   Glendronach 15 Year Moscatel Finish – Regular $84.49 – SAVE 10%

35.   Glenglassaugh Spirit Drink – Regular $47.99 – SAVE 10%

36.   Glenmorangie Quarter Century – Regular $449.99 – SAVE 10%

37.   G&M Strathisla 25 Year – A combination of 1st fill and re-fill sherry cask this is a massively fruity whisky with notes of Chirstmas Cake, tobacco and leather. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $182.99 – SAVE 10%

38.   Isle of Jura 10 Year – Regular $42.99 – SAVE 10%

39.   Kilchoman KWM Fresh Bourbon Cask – Kensington Wine Market is one of only 3 stores in North America and a handful more in the world to have acquired our own cask of Kilchoman single malt. Massive creamy vanilla-Bourbon notes balance out a surge of salty, smoky peat. Surprisingly approachable at an impressive strength of 61.9% this whisky is a must try for lovers of Ardbeg, Laphroaig or Port Ellen! – Regular $114.99 – SAVE 10%

40.   Macallan 18 Year – Regular $174.99 – SAVE 10%

41.   Macallan Fine Oak 10 Year – Regular $54.54 – SAVE 10%

42.   OMC Mortlach 12 Year – New and exclusive to KWM. – Regular $109.99 – SAVE 10%

43.   OMC Port Ellen 27 Year – New and exclusive to KWM. – Regular $349.99 – SAVE 10%

44.   OMC Rosebank 20 Year – New and exclusive to KWM. – Regular $189.99 – SAVE 10%

45.   PC7 (Port Charlotte 7 Year) – Regular $109.99 – SAVE 10%

46.   Port Ellen 29 Year – Regular $361.99 – SAVE 10% 

47.   Signatory Bowmore 1972 – Exclusive to KWM, this is the poorman’s Black Bowmore. Chewy, rich, massively fruity with faint tropical fruits. – Regular $634.99 – SAVE 10%

48.   Signatory Dufftown 1984 First Fill Sherry – Exclusive to KWM. This is a sherry monster! – Regular $209.99 – SAVE 10%

49.   Signatory Dufftown 1984 Refill Sherry – This sister cask to the other Dufftown 1984 couldn’t be more different. The sherry notes are still strong but with a much more deft, lighter touch. It is very elegant – Regular $209.99 – SAVE 10% 

50.   Signatory Glencraig 1976 – Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $252.99 – SAVE 10%

51.   Signatory Glenlossie 1985 – This is an elegant sherried whisky, smooth and full of flavour but without any of the stronger sherry notes. Exclusive to KWM. – Regular $209.99 – SAVE 10%

52.   Signatory Springbank 1969 40 Year – This is one of the most delightful whiskies I’ve ever had. Certainly in my Top 10. Bottled at an impressive strength of 54.4% this whisky is soft and massively complex with layers of honey, soft and dried fruits, a trace of light salty smoke, black licorice, Christmas spices and everything you could ever want in an older Springbank. – Regular $1267.99 Exclusive to KWM. – SAVE 10%

53.   Amrut Peat Cask Strength – Regular $102.49 – SAVE 7%

54.   Auchentoshan 1978 – Small batch vintage Auchentoshan limited to less than 500 bottles worldwide. – Regular $543.99 – SAVE 7%

55.   Auchentoshan 1977 – Only 18 bottles of this sherry cask matured bottling came into Canada out of a worldwide availability of just 240. KWM bought 15 of them, because it is a superb whisky! – $506.99 – SAVE 7%

56.   Bowmore 25 Year – Much improved over the last few years this sherry dominant top whisky in their core range is big and chewy. – Regular $302.49 – SAVE 7%

57.   Bunnahabhain 12 Year – Regular $71.49 – SAVE 7 %

58.   Dalwhinnie 15 Year – Regular $75.99 – SAVE 7%

59.   Dalwhinnie Distillers Edition – Regular $102.49 – SAVE 7%

60.   G&M Cask Strength Highland Park 1995– Regular $111.99 – SAVE 7%

61.   G&M Cask Strength Miltonduff 1996 – Regular $111.99 – SAVE 7%

62.   G&M Cask Strength Old Pulteney 1993 – Regular $119.99 – SAVE 7%

63.   Glen Elgin 16 Year – – Regular $99.99 – SAVE 7%

64.   Glen Garioch 12 Year – Regular $47.49 – SAVE 7%

65.   Glengoyne 21 Year – Regular $96.49 – SAVE 7%

66.   Glenkinchie 12 Year  – Regular $71.99 – SAVE 7%

67.   Glenkinchie Distillers Edition – Regular $98.49 – SAVE 7%

68.   Glenlivet 18 Year  – Regular $95.99 – SAVE 7%

69.   Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban – Regular $70.49 – SAVE 7%

70.   Highland Park 12 Year – Regular $56.49 – SAVE 7%

71.   Kilchoman Summer 2010 Release – Regular $89.99 – SAVE 7%

72.   Macallan 12 Year – Regular $69.99 – SAVE 7%

73.   Oban 14 Year – Regular $99.99 – SAVE 7%

74.   Oban Distillers Edition – Regular $143.49 – SAVE 7%

75.   Port Ellen 30 Year – Regular $449.99 – SAVE 7%

Bourbon

1.       Jack Daniels KWM Single Barrel – Regular $49.99 – SAVE 20%

2.       Pappy Van Winkle’s Reserve 20 Year – Regular $142.49 – SAVE 10%

3.       Knobb Creek – Regular $47.99 – Save 7%

4.       Maker’s Mark – Regular $46.49 – Save 7%

Canadian Whisky

1.       Alberta Premium  – Regular $23.49 – SAVE 7%

2.       Crown Royal – Regular $32.99 – SAVE 7%

3.       Forty Creek Barrel Select – Regular $27.99 – SAVE 7%

Other Whiskies

1.       Arran Robbie Burns Blend – Just in time for Robbie Burns Day! – Regular $35.99 – SAVE 7%

2.       Black Grouse – Regular $34.99 – SAVE 7%

3.       Johnnie Walker Black Label – Regular 44.99 – SAVE 7%

4.       Johnnie Walker Blue Label – Regular $241.99 – SAVE 10%

5.       PENDERYN WELSH WHISKY  – regular $76.99 – SAVE 7%

6.       Redbreast Irish Whiskey- Regular 41.99 – SAVE 7%

If you have any whisky questions or comments concerning The Malt Messenger please contact me by e-mail, phone, or drop by the store. Feel free to forward me any whisky news you feel should be included in a future issue of The Malt Messenger; it might just get included.

All of the products mentioned in THE MALT MESSENGER can be purchased in store, over the phone or from our website at www.kensingtonwinemarket.com.. All prices quoted in the Malt Messenger are subject to change!

Thanks for reading the Malt Messenger!

Slainte!

Andrew Ferguson
KWM Scotchguy

403-283-8000
888-283-9004
1257 Kensington Rd. NW
Calgary, AB, Canada
T2N 3P8

scotchguy@kensingtonwinemarket.com 

SHORT RAMBLINGS (too long for Twitter! ;-))

Tasting: how to make your inherent subjectivity a little more consistent

Friends, every once in a while, someone who’s usually charming but more or less anonymous appears on some forum or blog or else and claims that scoring whisky (or any other thing) is totally subjective thus irrelevant. That, by the way, seldom happens on Facebook, for instance, nor on mailing lists, maybe because most people using those platforms don’t do that anonymously. Ha, anonymity!
 
So, here’s my take again. First, what’s subjectivity? According to a dictionary and in this context, something subjective is something that’s ‘based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.’

I won’t argue. Maybe except if you’re a professional taster or blender, you’ll indeed be influenced by your tastes when assessing a whisky. A score isn’t anything else than a way of expressing how much you enjoyed a particular whisky and your enjoyment depends on your tastes. Case closed? Not quite…
 
… Because what some good people will add ad libitum is that your ‘tastes’ or ‘feelings’ cannot be consistent as they depend on a variety of factors, including time, mood, shape, location, glassware, food and so on. In other words, that Monday’s 80 points will be Thursday’s 87 points. In my opinion, that’s correct as well, even if a trained taster should be a little more accurate than that (by the way, I’ve seen a famous master blender (not from Whyte & Mackay’s!) who, after having nosed a very peaty malt whisky (around 35ppm), claimed that it was a Lowlander and no, he wasn’t evoking one of these excellent peated Bladnochs!)
 
Anyway, so, scores are meaningless because no taster will be consistent enough, at least not as consistent as a machine such as a mass spectrometer, right? Yes and no. There are many ways of lowering your inconsistency, no matter how experienced you are. It’s not a matter of skill, it’s simply a matter of organization. The first thing that, in my opinion, is very important is that a score should always be comparative. You cannot indeed just quaff a single whisky and claim that it’s worth 85 (why not 80? Why not 90?)  Well, you can, but by doing so you’re indeed also scoring your mood, the place where you are, the friends who are around and the pepperoni pizza that you just wolfed down.
 
So comparison is paramount in my opinion, even more so than ‘consistent settings’ (place, time, glassware and such). The first thing you’ll have to do in my opinion, and I find it funny that no naysayers ever talk about that, is to use ‘reference’ or ‘benchmark’ whiskies to check whether your senses are in good shape or not, to calibrate them and to readjust your ‘internal scale’ before any new tasting session. Find a few rather consistent (avoid whiskies that are subject to too much batch variation) and popular malts, score them several times and then use them as benchmarks, that is to say malts you’ll always have a few drops of before any session, for instance Laphroaig 10 for a ‘peated’ session. Of course, using Octomore at cask strength won’t quite work ;-). So, does your Laphroaig 10 taste different than usual? You’d rather score it 78 or 92 instead of the expected 85? Cancel your session, you’re not in good shape! This is a main difference between tasting and scoring wine and tasting and scoring spirits. Using benchmark wines is much harder to do, as wines change a lot and as it’s not easy to crack open a new bottle of, say Chasse Spleen 2000 every time you’re having a few cabs ;-).
 
So, I tell you, whether you’re a beginner or a dedicated imbiber, you’ll improve your consistency by using benchmark whiskies. That quite a few old drinkers do not believe in ‘consistency’ at all mainly comes from the fact that they were never organized enough to do that, or never thought about that, and when they criticize others, it’s in fact themselves that they bash ;-).
 
Now, there’s also the issue of the 100-scale. I agree it’s not perfect, and 5 stars, for instance, can be enough for some tasters (that’s why I’m using both), but I must say I do need the 100-scale for my own use. Why? Because, again, I believe in comparisons and only in comparisons. Not only comparisons with a benchmark whisky this time, also comparisons with similar whiskies. No matter your tasting abilities, if you try, say two young Macallans ex-bourbon head-to-head, you’ll almost always like one a little better, even if both are very similar. That’s where the 100-scale comes handy! ‘A little better’ may translate into a difference of only one point.

So to sum things up and provided you’d be willing to score your whiskies as well (and were not traumatised by your school days), I humbly think that a fairly good solution is this:

Constant settings (location, glassware and such)
Benchmark whiskies (sets scale, check senses, makes relations and proportions between many scores a little more accurate)
Compare similar whiskies (fine tuning, nuances)

I believe that won’t make your scores any more objective, because your tastes and sometimes your emotions will always rule, but I think this wee method should make them more consistent and maybe less irrelevant both to yourself and to your friends if you’re mad enough to publish them (and are ready to take some flak!) Having said that, we’ll never be machines even we tried hard, and that’s very good news if you ask me.
 
Oh, one last thing and as I wrote several times before, I believe scores should always come with tasting notes that will explain why you scored The GlenWonka 100 years old only 39 points. But in all cases, everything will always remain personal opinions and the only thing we can maybe achieve is some kind of ‘fairly consistent subjectivity’. – Serge

Visit Serge and the excellent Whiskyfun at www.whiskyfun.com

Hello Fellow Scotch Lovers –
 
I trust our first Whisky Wednesday email of 2011 finds you in good health and spirits, and your year is off to a roaring start.

I get most excited when we are able to offer you a whisky that, for the most part, is not available anywhere else. And this is certainly the case with this weeks offering: Kilchoman Un-Chill-Filtered Islay Whisky – Summer 2010 release.
 
Kilchoman is one of the smallest distilleries in Scotland with an annual production of 90,000 litres of alcohol.

This amazing whisky is matured in a combination of fresh bourbon barrels from Buffalo Trace Distillery, Kentucky and refill casks and fresh oloroso sherry butts, creating a sweet soft peaty flavor unlike any other I’ve tried.
 
The retail price is $59.95. If you want a bottle, please purchase it ASAP. We have an limited number of bottles of the Summer 2010 release, and once they’re gone, they are gone.

Enjoy!

Doug Stone

Founder

www.ForScotchLovers.com

Hi everyone, Happy New Year and sorry to disturb you. I was wondering – if you had 5 mins to spare – if you could please take part in this little survey about whisky and social media/online.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/whiskyonline

There’s a couple of prizes as part of a random draw as a thank you for taking part.

Thanks again – and feel free to spread the survey. The more answers the better and I’ll be making the results public, so it should benefit us all.

Craig

Craig McGill
MD & Creative Guy www.Contently-Managed.com
Digital and Social Media PR

Well, not quite yet. Since the people that deliver whisky news to the world continue their extended Christmas break Whisky Intelligence has decided to publish the annual Whisky Intelligence 2010 ‘Tasting Notes/Whisky Reviews’ Score Compilation a little earlier than scheduled this coming Sunday, January 16th, 2011.

Check back on Sunday and see which whiskies topped the list…

Since Christmas, the distillery equipment has been given a thorough clean and polish, the warehouses have been inspected and tidied up (a little bit of tasting has been done at the same time). This week will see the shop having a lick of paint, so hopefully by the morning of Thursday 13th January we will be open for business again. We are not distilling until about the 27th – so if you want a chance to look inside the stills, etc., now’s the time. 

The Chapter 6 & 9 are in stock, as are the 30ltr casks for those of you who want a barrel of whisky to take home.

In the early spring we will launch a Prince William and Kate whisky. I am finding this difficult to do as it seems most of the wedding memorabilia is rather cheap and nasty, I promise you our bottle will be lovely and the contents better still! If you are interested in this (it will be in our engraved decanter bottle and cost around £60, I think) click on this link to register your details. http://forms.emailtextexperts.com/signup.php?fid=235&pid=14885 (Please note you will receive an e-mail from E-MailTextExperts.com to confirm you would like your details added.) Obviously this is one whisky release that will not be repeated, so there are no second chances of getting any. We don’t want payment at the moment, but if you tell us you want a bottle or two, we can make sure you have some.

Finally, in light of the fact that VAT has increased, fuel will soon be worth more than gold and a loaf of bread must surely end up costing twice what it does today, fairly soon in the future – we are bringing a little relief to the party. There will be NO increase in price on English Whisky for the time being. I hope this helps a little.

I sincerely hope you all had a lovely Christmas and that 2011 will be fun for you.

Kind regards

Andrew

Visit The English Whisky Company at http://www.englishwhisky.co.uk/

All of the Jolly Toper’s whisky tastings take place on Thursday nights from 7:30pm until approximately 10pm at the Tolbooth Tavern, 167 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, meals available up to the time of the tastings. For more details on the tastings themselves, please click here

Thursday 20th January 7.30pm £20/17*:-

Amrut Intermediate sherry 57.1% – yet another cracker from the Indian icon
Glenfiddich Snow Pheonix 47.6% – a much sought after collector’s bottle
High West Rendezvous rye 46% batch No. 49 – a high rye content of 80%
Tamdhu 26yo 12.10.1984 – 2010 162 bottles 50.1% – bottled by the Creative Whisky Company for www.whiskywhiskywhisky.com
Ardbeg 16yo 1994 – October 2010 Bourbon hogshead 270 bottles 57.0% – a Cadenheads bottling.

Visit the Jolly Toper at http://www.jollytopertastings.co.uk/

Whiskies of  the World introduces A Distillery Reborn

What happens to a distillery that has been closed for decades then reopens? In the case of Glenglassaugh Distillery, it becomes an award winner. Founded in 1875, Glenglassaugh was sold years later, renovated in the 1960’s and then mothballed in 1986. Just a few short years ago, in 2008, it reopened and the whisky that had been left aging since the 1980’s has become award winning Scotch.  At the San Francisco World Spirits Competition in 2010, the 21 Year Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky was awarded the double gold medal and the 40 Year Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky was awarded a gold medal. If your mouth is watering, like mine is, you’ll have the chance to taste some of the wonderful spirits coming out of this revived distillery at Whiskies of the World Expo.  For an even more tantalizing experience, we will have a Whisky Pairing led by Stuart Nickerson on March 24 at the City Club of San Francisco. Here you’ll get rare pours not available at the Expo.  Look for details to come later.

 

Happy New Year!
Don’t forget about…

The Wemyss Malts Tasting Today
Come & Try Some Awesome Drams with Susan from Wemyss!

Get yer tickets from the AUSA reception in Butchart Centre!

Have a break from revision and come for a dram!
 
Location: Butchart Centre University Rd, Aberdeen
When: 7pm, Wednesday 12th January 2011
What to Bring: Ticket + Membership Card + Raffle Money!

University of Aberdeen Malt Whisky Society
The Butchart Centre
University Road
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire AB24 3UT
aberdeenwhisky@googlemail.com

JANUARY WHISKY SALE

10% OFF absolutely everything – Limited Time Only.

We thought as this is our first ever January trading online as www.SpecialistWhisky.com we would bring you 10% off all our Whisky online, this offer is ONLY available online.

Customers in all our delivery countries can take advantage of this offer – it will not last long, and subject to removal without notice.

Visit us soon!

Craig

www.Specialistwhisky.com