We are pleased to offer this month two (2) new additions to the DOUGLAS (of Drumlanrig) range. Their tasting notes follows:

DOD0215 Glengoyne 12 Year Old
Nose: Fresh & fragrant + a buttery sweet, cookie dough style
Palate: sweet gristy character + a home baked character
Finish: Medium long, carrying a fresh lemon zest quality (J)

DOD0217 Benrinnes 12 Year Old Sherry
Nose: Opens spicy, carrying a dried fruit style + creamy vanilla
Palate: Mouth coatingly spiced + sweet mocha + late tobacco
Finish: All drier now + a soft oak tang + lingering caramel (J)

We hope you and your clients will like these 2 new bottlings as much as us – all to be followed next month by 5 or 6 new bottlings.

All the best

Fred H Laing
Managing Director

Visit Douglas Laing at www.douglaslaing.com

Tamdhu 12 Year Old Provenance

46% alc/vol

Tamdhu 12 Year Old Provenance was distilled in 1999.

**Spring Distillation**
Sweety honied and warmly spuiced on the nose. The palate is chewy, vanilla, toffee’d – even more specied now – and runs to a finish which is cough drops warmingly spiced again, with late barely sugar tone evident.

Douglas McGibbon & Co were formed in 1949 & they are still firecely independent & family owned.
£33.99

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SOUTHERN COMFORT NAMES WIEDEN+KENNEDY NEW YORK AGENCY OF RECORD

New campaign entitled “Whatever’s Comfortable” launching August 1

August 1, 2012, LOUISVILLE, KY – Southern Comfort is pleased to announce Wieden+Kennedy New York has been selected as the new agency of record for the brand’s global marketing communication services across all traditional, digital and emerging media channels.

The first campaign from the new partnership, entitled “Whatever’s Comfortable,” launches digitally via Southern Comfort’s online communities on Facebook and YouTube August 1. The campaign, much like the brand, was created to celebrate and inspire the awesome attitude of people who are completely comfortable with themselves. In “Beach,” the launch spot for the campaign, we are captivated by a man who owns his self-comfortableness so completely as he walks casually down the beach. The new work begins airing on national television on Aug 5, with an exclusive two week run of :60 second spots – the first ever in the brand’s history.

“We are thrilled to welcome Wieden+Kennedy into the Southern Comfort family,” said Mark Bacon, SVP, Managing Director, Southern Comfort. “Wieden+Kennedy’s global perspective, passion and insight will enable us to build equity with our core consumer and ensure Southern Comfort meets its ambitious growth objectives. We look forward to collaborating with them for years to come to share our brand’s great heritage with consumers.”

“We are really excited to have the opportunity to work with such an iconic brand like Southern Comfort,” said Neal Arthur, Managing Director of Wieden+Kennedy New York. “We are proud of the work produced together already, and look forward to the future of this great partnership.”

About Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort®, a fruit, spice, and whiskey flavored liqueur, was created in New Orleans by bartender M.W. Heron in 1874. Today, it is enjoyed by friends in over 100 countries around the world and continues to grow as an icon brand. Please visit us at www.SouthernComfort.com  and facebook.com/southerncomfort.

About Wieden+Kennedy

Wieden+Kennedy, founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1982, is an independent, privately held international advertising agency with offices in Amsterdam, Delhi, London, New York City, Portland, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. A full-service, creatively led communications company, Wieden+Kennedy has helped build some of the strongest global brands, including Coca-Cola, Chrysler, Delta Air Lines, Electronic Arts, ESPN, Heineken, Honda, Kraft, Levi’s, Nike, and Procter & Gamble. www.wk.com

BenRiach Releases Latest Batch of Single Cask Bottlings

BenRiach has today, 3 August, released the latest batch, its ninth, of single cask bottlings.

It comprises in total some three thousand bottles from ten outstanding casks. Bottled in July, all are available as of today.

Ranging from 22 to 35 years, the release demonstrates the range of multi-layered expressions for which BenRiach is renowned. As would be expected from BenRiach, there is tremendous variety across the ten casks – including “classic Speyside”, peated expressions and various wood finishes (Pedro Ximenez, Tawny Port, Sauternes and Rioja).

Incidentally, Jim Murray was especially complimentary about the delicate influence of BenRiach’s PX sherry wood finishes. In his 2012 Whisky Bible, he says of the 15 year-old: “This is one of the world whisky noses of the year: absolute perfection.”

All ten casks have been hand-selected by BenRiach’s Managing Director Billy Walker.

He said: “Getting the wood right can be expensive but it’s one of the things I’m most proud of since we took over BenRiach.”

And what an amazing range Batch Nine has. Billy’s tasting notes convey a seductive mélange of styles ranging from “waves of damsons, plums and raisins” to “sweet honey with vanilla”, “buttered toast” and “a beautiful combination of peat reek, dates and dark chocolate”.

The cask details are as follows:

1976 cask # 5317 / 35 years old / Pedro Ximenez Sherry Finish / 54.1% vol. / approx 204 bottles

1976 cask # 6967 / 35 years old / Classic Speyside / 59.0% vol. / approx 339 bottles

1976 cask # 8804 / 35 years old / Peated / 54.9%vol. / approx 232 bottles

1977 cask # 2593 / 34 years old / Sauternes Finish / 44.2% vol. / approx 278 bottles

1977 cask # 2588 / 34 years old / Rioja Finish / 44.1% vol. / approx 280 bottles

1983 cask # 291 / 29 years old / Classic Speyside / 43.1% vol / approx 264 bottles

1984 cask # 1052 / 27 years old / Peated, Pedro Ximenez Sherry Finish / 50.7% vol / approx 258 bottles

1984 cask # 4050 / 27 years old / Peated, Tawny Port Finish / 52.2% vol / approx 283 bottles

1985 cask # 7190 / 26 years / Peated, Pedro Ximenez Sherry Finish / 48.7% vol / approx 211 bottles

1990 cask # 2596 / 22 years / Tawny Port Finish / 53.4% vol / approx 624 bottles

Keep an eye on our website and Facebook page over the coming weeks for more information on these new releases, tasting notes and exclusive product photography.

If you would like to receive more information regarding Batch 9 releases, please contact us on info@benriachdistillery.co.uk

Adelphi’s 18yo Liddesdale Islay (46%, Batch release No.1, 2962 Bts., +/-2012)

Bottled from 5 refill European oak ex-sherry butts, the Liddesdale is the third whisky in Adelphi’s limited edition single malt range. A bottling from Adelphi the independent bottler without disclosing the distillery although there is a clue; ISLAY. On the nose…well quite frankly it’s a lot like Springbank and to be precise it‘s a lot like Hazelburn with some good oak spice, wet cotton and a distinct lack of peat smoke; there is also some very nice dried fruits however the similarity to Hazelburn is quite striking. None the less the aromas are very good. The taste is quite gentle but again shows no peat however the fruit (and now some good malt) along with some chocolate all combine to make for an excellent taste; this is really very good. And sherry but subtle. The finish is very long and active with a good tussle between malt and the fruit with a little of the cocoa mixed in for good measure.

Not very complicated but very good none the less. If forced to guess one would have to say Bunnahabhain but it’s just a guess and it could be a Bruichladdich too….either way or which ever way it’s very drinkable.

$86

Score 88

August Outturn: Alluring & Dangerous

Ulysses tied himself to the mast of his boat to resist the sirens…buckle-up and ride the wave of utterly alluring and dangerously good single casks this August Outturn.

Lost at sea? Dive-in with our August Recommendations:

PAIR: 35.69 & 37.52 for £83.00
35.69 Sticky toffee pudding for dieters &
37.52 Bottle essence of gardens and orchards
BUY

TRIO: 36.69, 37.52 & 3.186 for £135
35.69 Sticky toffee pudding for dieters
37.52 Bottle essence of gardens and orchards &
3.186 Mermaids at play in Lochindaal
BUY

CASE: 35.69, 4.168, 37.52, 3.186, 44.53 & 41.53 for £279
35.69 Sticky toffee pudding for dieters
4.168 Gunpowder, treason and plot
37.52 Bottle essence of gardens and orchards
3.186 Mermaids at play in Lochindaal
44.53 Lip-smacking, chewy and chunky &
41.53 Manly perfumes in mum’s handbag
BUY

35.69 is exclusive to our August Offers

*New Distillery bottling 129.1 will go onsale on Mon 6 August via our telephone line – 0131 555 2929 (one bottle per member)

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults, 87 Giles Street, Leith EH6 6BZ
Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm).

Visit the Society at http://www.smws.co.uk/memberships for your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers.

2012 Commemorative Bottle

How do you do a whisky to celebrate 2012 without infringing on Olympic trademarks and rules? Impossible – so here it is anyway. 366 bottles – one for each day of the year!

2012 has been an amazing year for GB. We have had the Jubilee, which seemed to go very well and now we have the Olympics which, despite the eternal British grumbles, also appears to be a true success. 2012 has been such an amazing year it would be wrong not to celebrate it, so we have.

There is a limit to how much we can engrave on a bottle, but of particular note is the fact that each and every bottle has had it’s own bottle number engraved by hand, something we haven’t done before – it looks amazing. Apart from having a very cool bottle and tube, the whisky in the bottle’s excellent.

Please note this will not be despatched until Friday 10th August at the latest.

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Keeping this message short and sweet – I’ve just put the following up on my online shop:

21 year old Lowland Single Malt Whisky distilled at Littlemill Distillery 21yo, 700ml, 55.1%, £45

Due to its closure in 1994 and loss of the distillery buildings, Littlemill Distillery is unlikely to ever re-open, except by possible re-incarnation in a brand new building on a brand new site. This makes the whisky extremely collectable, and it can only get rarer with time.

By the way – please feel free to let me know what you think of the new labels, or anything else! I’m always keen to have feedback.

Thanks,

Martin Armstrong

www.whiskybroker.co.uk

Highland Park to create living tapestry of global fans

The home of the ‘best spirit in the world’* is set to make its fans around the world a permanent part of its distillery through the creation of a new, innovative piece of artwork. The Highland Park ‘mosaic’ is a collection of people’s faces crafted into an image capturing one of Orkney’s most striking and unique views.

Everyone who visits Highland Park on Orkney always says that when they leave, they take a little piece of the Island with them. With that in mind, Highland Park has taken this one step further and given its Inner Circle members a unique chance to be immortalised within the very walls of the distillery itself.

Daryl Haldane, Global Brand Advocate, Highland Park, said, “Today, we feel as strongly about our family as Magnus Eunson did back in 1798 and when this unique family portrait is completed, it will adorn one of the walls in the distillery, meaning that no matter how far away you happen to live from our beloved home, you can always say that you’ve left a lasting impression. It really does bring a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘your face here’…!”

To be part of the mosaic, all people need to do is upload a picture of themselves to the mosaic and in return for their unwavering loyalty they will become part of the distillery’s rich history, by joining our living artwork.

Photographs can be submitted in three ways; by downloading the Highland Park App from iTunes; on Highland Park’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/HighlandParkWhisky or via www.highlandpark.co.uk

* Highland Park is also the only ever spirit to be awarded the prestigious Best Spirit in the World, receiving the accolade in both 2005 and 2009 for its 18 year old single malt.

Notes:

Highland Park

Five keystones contribute to making the Best Spirit in the World:

• Hand-turned malt adds to the deliciously succulent, balanced layers of aromatic character found in Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.
• Aromatic peat gives a delectably seductive, luxuriant floral sweetness to Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.
• Cool maturation enhances the smooth character of Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.
• Sherry oak casks contribute to the distinctive richness and multi-dimensional complexity of Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.
• Cask harmonisation ensures consistency and balance in Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.

Established in 1798 on Orkney, Highland Park is one of the most remote Scotch whisky distilleries in the world. For over 200 years, the distillery has combined time old tradition and the very best craftsmanship to achieve perfection. Its core range of 12, 18, 21, 25, 30 and 40 year old single malt is consistently acclaimed by connoisseurs and experts.
www.highlandpark.co.uk