Happy Whiskey To You Fellow WhiskyLover

It has been a tumultuous two weeks since my last email. Most recently we again showed the world how lucky we are to live in a nation “of the people, by the people”.

And one week prior to that demonstration of democracy, the Global HQ of ForWhiskeyLovers took a mighty blow from a nasty wench named Sandy in my home village of Piermont NY on the mighty Hudson river.

The devastation in my town, and the broader NY/NJ/CT area, is like nothing I have ever seen before. Trees…boats…electrical wires…everywhere. We had no power through last Thursday, and we were extremely fortunate. As of this morning their were still untold thousands still without power…with an old-school Nor’easter bearing down on us.

But fear not. We’re New Yorkers…and if there is anyone I’d bet my last dollar on to “tough it out and bounce back”, its one of us. And of I had $4, I’d bet $2 on New Jersey, and $2 on New York, and I’d laugh all the way to the bank.

If you feel so inclined…please consider donating to some sort of Sandy Relief effort….like the American Red Cross or the Salvation Army. There is so much rebuilding needed…of lives, business and infrastructure. Every little bit will help.

So what better way to honor and thank my fellow NY’ers, for being my neighbor and working to rebuild our lives, than to raise a glass to them…a glass of an exquisite whisky with a New York history: Compass Box’s Great King Street, New York Blend.

Created for the 2012 New York Whisky Fest, GKSNYB is the first in a series of one-off, regional Scotch whisky blends released by Compass Box under the Great King Street label.

The whisky, created by Compass Box’s whisky maestro John Glaser, is dedicated to Patrick J. Duffy…the man who in 1894 (legend has it) first brought a branded and bottled Scotch whisky to New York. GKSNYB is based on an actual recipe Glaser found from the 1890’s.

GKSNYB was created using lots of peaty single malts, plenty of sherry cask-aged single malts, and a much higher proportion of malt to grain whisky (80%/20%) than is typically used today. This is just as the finest blending houses would have created a whisky in 1894.

This is a hearty, full-flavored Scotch with notes of smoke, dried fruits and malty complexity, The whisky was bottled at a higher strength of 46% ABV, with natural color and without chill-filtering.

GKS New York Blend is an extremely limited production whisky, with less than 1700 bottles produced, and less than that available in the US, primarily in the New York Metropolitan area.

But fortunately for us our man Nicky The Neck OWNS New York, and everything to do with it. And so we’ve been able to procure more than our fair share of this whisky with ‘tude, and can offer you the opportunity to acquire your own bottle of GKSNYB for $89.95/ bottle, with $10 from every purchase being contributed to the Piermont NY Volunteer Fire Department.

I hope you’ll join me in honoring my fellow New Yorkers, and helping us rebuild. You’ll be getting an amazing and highly collectable whisky as a “thanks” for your generosity.

But act now, because once its gone…

Until next week…I wish you high spirits!

Doug Stone
Founder
ForWhiskeyLovers.com

GREAT KING STREET – NEW YORK BLEND