Introducing Founder’s Highlights Regular update from Dan

It’s been a whirlwind few weeks, with two major trade shows last week providing a chance to speak with bartenders in Manchester and a pub/restaurant owners from around the country.  This was followed by surprise news from France, that King Charles had been offered a dram of Cotswolds Single Malt by our fantastic French brand ambassador Hugues during his appearance in Bordeaux – an amazing coup which was picked up by many British newspapers.  Immediately following that was a day spent on our stand at the London Whisky Show, one of the highlights of the autumn whisky calendar.

A few days later I spent two days on our stand in Cannes at the Tax Free World Association’s annual conference, the largest international gathering of the duty-free and travel retail business.  Lots of good meetings and we hope to be back in nearly all UK airports by year-end.  Then off to a whisky masterclass in Nice, a visit with our Italian distributor in Genoa, and back home in time to host over 60 investors for the first of our two Investor Days.  And finally an enjoyable Sunday showing the Alessandro Palazzi (the venerable head Bartender from Dukes in London) and his team around the distillery.

One of the things I am most excited about is the near-finishing of work on our new Wetlands ecological treatment system.  It should be ready for commissioning in a few weeks, and will use plants to naturally treat the effluent from our whisky distillery.  Our investors were given a preview the other week, and seemed to be very impressed – I cannot wait to show it to all of you soon. Last week marked the official launch of our new Harvest Series whisky, Flaxen Vale, with beautiful artwork from local painter Annabel Playfair.

We rolled out our new whisky advertising campaign, ‘English for Whisky’, celebrating our position as the UK’s top-selling English whisky and leader in New World Whisky

And it was also the kick-off for an exciting new ad campaign – our first – for our whisky, which we hope you will all see very soon.  Then it was off to Northumberland for a meeting of the English Whisky Guild, October is always a busy month, but this year has to be a record!

Cheers
Dan