It’s been just over a month since we reopened the Milroy’s doors following the change of ownership and our extensive refurbishment. Now we finally have the time we thought we’d give you all an update on how we are doing and let you know about the changes and exciting new products we have in store.

What’s New In Store

Bars – two of them actually – for those of you who haven’t managed to pop in yet we now have a stunning coppertop whisky bar on the ground floor, allowing you to sip a dram (35ml measures – 25ml just isn’t enough!) whilst perusing the shelves and then receiving 10% off the bottle you’ve just enjoyed.

The second bar is located in the basement, previously this was our tasting room. We’ve now added a concrete bar and opened up what we like to call the Barrel Room, a small 10 seater vault, previously our whisky cellar. Downstairs is a little different, the focus here is cocktails expertly made by Natalino and Simo, open from 6pm Tuesday-Thursday and 5pm Friday & Saturday, or you could of course stick to whisky (or even try our own beer!).

Web Store

As you will know we haven’t yet got a working web store up and running, much to the frustration of both ourselves and of course you our customers. For those of you out there who are in I.T. and I’m sure there are a few, you’ll know designing a top quality (working!) web store isn’t something done overnight, and as we are now a totally new company keeping the old web store wasn’t an option. The good news though is we aren’t far off – we hope to have a transactional web store up and running by mid-May.

The second piece of good news is you can still buy online, kind of, in the interim we will make sure we update you on new stock as and when it arrives, so simply email back to the newsletter or give us a call and we can send out the stock to you. If there is anything you are looking for just let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

New Stock: Samaroli

A name synonymous with quality whisky, established almost 50 years ago Samaroli is amongst the most famous independent bottlers in the world of whisky.  Some of the older Samaroli bottles now command a high price, and having tried the 2014 releases we can honestly say nothing has changed in terms of quality. Silvano Samaroli at the time of starting his bottling company in 1968 was the first to do so outside of the UK.

Samaroli’s ethos remains the same as ever, bottling whiskies when they feel the time is right, and the flavour represents what they feel a whisky should be. Everything is done in small batches and their total yearly output is a mere 14,000 bottles worldwide, as such we only have a very small number of each.

Jura 1997, 17 Year Old, 43%

This tasty 17 year old Jura is big on the coastal flavour profile. Seaweed resting in a quiet harbour, petunias and lashings of sea salt make for an amazing dram! £91.75

Ferry To Islay, 55.1%

A blended malt of Bunnahabhain, Caol Ila and Laphroaig. This is typical Islay oozing in peat with a surprising minty subtlety. £179.95