What’s New?…

How are you doing? Need a little whisky in your life? Yes?

Well we are delighted to finally announce our Whisky Lounge Festival in a Box! Below you will find the details of who is involved (so far!), and – most importantly – how you get involved!

Read on!

Game On!

Friday 16th October

4.30pm Festival opening and introduction, with Eddie Ludlow

5pm Scotch Whisky Session 1

7pm World Whisky Tasting

Saturday 17th October

11am Breakfast ‘Malt-Teasers’ Quiz with Inverhouse Distillers

1pm Scotch Whisky Session 2

3pm Asian Whisky Tasting

5pm Indie Bottlers Tasting

7pm Saturday night cocktails

Sunday 18th October

12pm Desert Island Drams, with Eddie Ludlow

2pm English Single Malt Tasting

4pm Peated Whiskies

You can take part in as many, or as few sessions as you like. Each session has its corresponding ‘Whisky Festival in a Box’ which you can purchase  by clicking the button below.

Each £35 Whisky Festival in a Box of your choice also comes with the following goodies…

A Glencairn ‘Whisky Festival in a Box’ Tasting Glass

A TWL Pin Badge

A can of Larkfire spring water

A pipette to add said water to your whisky

Four mystery world whiskies for you to guess the provenance of…

Plus, the first 50 people to purchase a £35 tasting pack can get a £20 quiz pack free! Just enter the code FREEQUIZ at the top of the order page, then select the Quiz Pack, along with the Festival in a Box of your choice.

There are more brands and distilleries confirming everyday so be sure to like our Facebook page to keep yourself bang up to date.

The event will be broadcast via Streamyard onto our Facebook page and YouTube Channel. If you are not able to make the live broadcast, you will be able to watch it later on either platform.

If you have a festival ticket for any of our 2020 festivals, and would like to instead use the value of this towards one or more of the tasting boxes, please click HERE.

Check out the TWL Festival in a Box NOW

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Don’t forget to catch up on the latest whisky news from Connas HERE and we look forward to seeing you – on-line – soon!

In the meantime – Stay Safe. Stay in. Have a dram.

Sláinte and best wishes,
Eddie, and the whole Whisky Lounge Team

2020 FESTIVALS

Current/Old Dates New Dates
Bristol  18th April 24th July 2021
London 15th-17th May 14th-16th May 2021
Edinburgh 6th June 27th-29th Nov

Liverpool 19th September 18th Sept 2021
Manchester 23rd-24th October
York 31st October
Nottingham 14th November

Drinks with… Maltstock!

Join us toonight 20.00 CET for “Drinks with…Maltstock”. You can tune in on the Maltstock Facebook page and the Maltstock YouTube channel.

FACEBOOK

YOUTUBE

Annette, Bob, Klaas, Stan and Teun will be at the Maltstock HQ (Teun’s SM-cellar) and will be chatting to some very relaxed people from the whisky industry. Tastings sets have been sent out to those who ordered one. But everyone can join in, with or without a set!

You can also ask anything you like to our guests and us. Of course you can ask your question in the Facebook and YouTube chat, but if you already have a question, please feel free to send it to us: info@maltstock.com.

Let me just remind you of the very relaxed line-up we have for you:

• Glenfarclas – Callum Fraser
• Waterford – Ian O’Brian
• Teeling – James Kilgannon
• Atom Brands – Sam Simmons
• Single Cask Nation – the 3J’s
• The Whisky Exchange – Billy Abbott

We will also be connecting live with some other people during the evening. And we’ll do a commercial break in which Mark Watt can tell about his new t-shirt company.

Make sure you join us on time. We start 20.00 CET Saturday 12 September. We’re looking forward to meeting so many relaxed people!

Stay healthy stay relaxed!

Annette, Bob, Klaas, Stan & Teun

Relax! We’ll be back in 2021!

Dates for next year are
10-12 September 2021

Ticket sales will start in September 2020.

We hope to see you all next year. That would be very relaxed!

Our mailing address is:

Maltstock

Nimrodstraat 54

Nijmegen, Gelderland6531 LH

Netherlands

Our Gathering celebrations may have looked a bit different this year, but that hasn’t stopped us all coming together to share in our wonderful community of members – whether that be at a safe social distance at our Members’ Rooms or partner bars, or virtually from different locations.

The celebrations will continue throughout the month so check out our programme to see if there’s an event happening near you.

MORE GATHERING PROGRAMME

There’s still time to get involved in our special virtual tasting for members across UK and Europe. We’ve created an extra special European Discovery Pack of Gathering bottlings, each of which are exclusive to an EU country. Due to this, most of the bottles in the pack will not be available to buy in your home county, so this tasting is your only chance to sample these special drams. Grab the European Discovery Pack and join our tasting on Thursday, 17 September where John McCheyne in the UK, Marcel Paschilke in Germany, Cyrille Girard in France, Jutta Unterguggenberger in Austria and Bob Wenting in the Netherlands will each be showcasing their branch-exclusive casks. The fun kicks off at 7pm (UK time) on our YouTube SMWS Silverscreen channel, so pick up your pack today to be sure you don’t miss out.

MORE INFO

BUY THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY PACK

*Please note, this is a different product from our Gathering Discovery Pack, which will be used for our tasting from The Vaults on Sunday, 6 September.

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 here for membership information

This is your chance to join and to take advantage of their great offers!

Spot the SMWS bottles in this amusing You Tube video

ralfy review 842 – Ardbeg Traigh Bhan 19yo @46.2%

ralfy review 842 Extras – Palette fatigue.

ABERFELDY® RELEASE 18 YEARS OLD LIMITED-EDITION FRENCH RED WINE CASK

Hamilton, Bermuda, 8^th September 2020 – John Dewar & Sons unveils its latest limited expression from The Golden Dram – ABERFELDY 18 Years Old, finished in French Wine Casks from Pauillac, Bordeaux.

The special edition bottling will be available today from the Distillery shop, https://shop.dewars.com/ for an exclusive one-month period before being released in selected markets.

Initially spending 18 years in a combination of first-fill Bourbon, re-fill and re-char casks, the whisky has undergone a second maturation period of around 4-5 months to impart a deeper flavour profile, and create a perfect balance between Aberfeldy’s honeyed richness and the firm tannins and complexity of Pauillac wines.

Pauillac is one of the most sought-after wine regions in Bordeaux, home to world famous wineries, the appellation produces a collection of fine red wines that are unrivalled in terms of quality. Having the deepest gravel in the Médoc*, with some chalk and clay, soils and microclimates play a vital role in Pauillac. In Bordeaux, proximity to the river is also all-important. Vineyards located at the river’s edge bask in a microclimate, and this is where the highest quality wines in Bordeaux are found.

The style of Pauillac wine is what many think of as textbook Bordeaux wine; a balance of power and grace with notable flavours of cassis, blackberry, tobacco, cigar box, spice, earth and cedar wood aromas coupled with firm tannins.

Malt Master, Stephanie MacLeod, carefully monitored maturation and flavour development in the casks until the desired flavour profile had been achieved. Pauillac is a robust wine, so the goal was to use this cask type to complement and elevate the signature character of Aberfeldy, not mask it.

Stephanie comments, “Pauillac casks are the aristocrats of the Médoc, they provide notes of black cherries, blackberries and a cedar wood spice. Aberfeldy’s wonderfully soft signature honey and creamy vanilla notes are invigorated with swathes of plush ripe fruits and lovely nutty aromas to create an incredibly elegant and fruitful whisky”

ABERFELDY 18 Years Old French Red Wine Cask expression is bottled at a higher strength of 43% ABV and joins the existing portfolio of single malts as a limited-edition expression.

Priced at £95, the new bottling will be initially available exclusively from the Aberfeldy Distillery and its online shop: https://shop.dewars.com/ from 8^th September for one month and then rolled out  in the following markets: USA, China, Taiwan, Germany, France.

Aberfeldy Distillery reopened to visitors on July 20th, experiences such as the Aberfeldy Tour, Cask Tasting Tour and Connoisseur Tour are all available to pre-book online. Visitors to Aberfeldy Distillery’s Whisky Lounge and Bar, which is open to guests booked onto an experience, can and raise a dram with one of the ABERFELDY® whiskies on offer in comfort, and will be able to purchase ABERFELDY 18 Years Old direct from the Distillery shop.

www.Aberfeldy.com

Notes:

* Pauillac is a French appellation in the Médoc wine region of Bordeaux, located in the département of Gironde, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary. Pauillac is wine growing commune (municipality) and appellation within Haut-Médoc in Bordeaux, centred on the small town of Pauillac. An appellation is a legally defined and protected geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown. 

About ABERFELDY Single Malt Scotch Whisky

ABERFELDY distillery was founded in 1898 by the dynamic Dewar brothers, John Alexander and Tommy. They built on a site just a stone’s throw from the birthplace of their father, the pioneering blender John Dewar.

Alongside the distillery, and known to contain deposits of alluvial gold, flows the Pitilie Burn; the perfect water source for the Golden Dram. While inside, time-honoured techniques like long fermentation, which conjures rare honeyed notes, safeguard the whisky’s flavour profile, renowned for its rich, sweet, smooth taste.

The brand’s core portfolio is comprised of ABERFELDY 12 Years Old, ABERFELDY 16 Years and ABERFELDY 21 Years Old.

The single malt brand of ABERFELDY is part of the portfolio of Bacardi Limited, headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. Bacardi Limited refers to the Bacardi group of companies, including Bacardi International Limited.

ENJOY ABERFELDY RESPONSIBLY

【ISC 2020】 Matsui Whisky won GOLD

On September 10th, the results of ISC 2020 came out.

4 products from Matsui Whisky won GOLD in Japanese Whisky category at “International Spirits Challenge 2020”. ISC is one of the most reliable international spirits competition, organized by “Drinks International”. It was their 25th year. Over 1700 entries from 70 countries were entered and judged by spirits experts through blind tasting.

≪Award List≫

Blended Whisky San-in

Pure Malt Whisky Kurayoshi Sherry Cask

Pure Malt Whisky Kurayoshi 8 Years

Pure Malt Whisky Kurayoshi 12 Years

Results: https://internationalspiritschallenge.com/2020/en/page/2020-results

For products inquiry, please contact our importer in the United States.
【ImpEx Beverage】
Email: office@impexbev.com
Phone: (650) 872 1113
Website: https://impexbev.com/

【Matsui Shuzo】

Email: info@matsuiwhisky.com

Website: https://matsuiwhisky.com/en/

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Facebook: Matsui Whisky

Instagram: @matsuiwhisky

Twitter: @matsuiwhisky

Auction closes tonight:

Monday 14th September – 9pm (BST)

THE LIVE AUCTION

21oo+ lots to bid on including a…

Macallan – 72 Year Old Lalique Genesis Decanter

Interested in selling whisky in our next auction?

+44 (0)1463 210 427

sales@thegrandwhiskyauction.com

RARE BY NATURE
AVAILABLE NOW

A stalwart of the whisky calendar, Diageo have followed up last year’s Special Releases with whiskies from many of the same distilleries, all offering slightly divergent twists on their own, ahem, natures. Come and explore these eight single malt whiskies from some of the best-known and most-interesting distilleries in Scotland – available to pre-order now. You can also read more about each, along with full tasting notes by The Whisky Exchange ambassador Billy Abbott, over on the blog.

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A FRESH NEW LOOK, THE GLENGOYNE WAY

Today we’re excited to unveil a brand-new look and feel across our award-winning Glengoyne Collection.

Taking inspiration from our unhurried and uncompromising approach to whisky-making, the new design celebrates our unique connection to time in everything we do at Glengoyne. The new look rolls out across The Glengoyne Collection this month.

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NATURE AT WORK

Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, so this exciting overhaul also sees The Glengoyne Collection move to 100% recyclable and locally sourced packaging. Free of plastic and magnets, and with nearly all of the material originating from Scotland, this marks another milestone in our long-standing commitment to sustainability and the future.

Our distillery is one of Scotland’s most beautiful and we are committed to keeping it that way. Not only does 100% of our electricity come from renewable energy, we also have our own wetlands and beehives on site.

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