Manager’s Legacy – A Success Story.

We have now just finished bottling the second in our Manger’s Legacy series which celebrates the tenure of Dod Cameron and is from a 1986 ex-sherry refill butt. There are only 500 individually numbered bottles available, as usual the bottles have been filled at cask strength (45.3%) in this instance without chill filtration and without the addition of colour.

It looks as if this bottling will be sold-out very quickly as we have been unable to meet all of the demand from our distributors and with only a few bottles remaining from the first bottling (Jim Cryle – 1974 refill hogshead) then we certainly feel that we can call this range a success.

The last two bottles in the range will be released next year, at the beginning of 2011 and both of them are older than 40 years, there will be 300 bottles from a 1968 cask celebrating the contribution of Bert Forsyth and 200 bottles from the 1967 cask in recognition of Walter Grant who eventually became Production Director of Highland Distilleries, retiring in 1986.

Probably – The Most Innovative Spirit Company ???

Firstly there was “The Spirit Drink that dare not speak its name” then “The Spirit Drink that blushes to speak it name”. This year the Spirits Drink range was extended to include “Peated and Fledgling XB”

Now “Let’s Mix It Up” – a triple-pack of the un-peated Spirit Drinks coming to a shop near you. A great opportunity to buy your own kit for assessing how our products develop as the maturation process progresses and how they change depending on the type of wood used for maturation.

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A great opportunity to create your own cocktails. Each of the Spirit Drink range has their signature cocktail, developed by the celebrated Edinburgh cocktail bar Bramble ( www.bramblebar.co.uk ), and these can be found on the Spirit Drink dedicated web-site www.thespiritdrink.com

The Royal Connection

The star of the cocktails with star billing at Bramble is “The Queen Street Julep” which uses “Peated” as its base spirit, and is enjoyed from its own gold Julep cup, try it once and you will never want to have another cocktail again.

Places to Visit

Ronnie and Graham are just back from a very successful trip to The Whisky Show in London where all of our products were well received. Both the 30 year old and 40 year old were featured as part of the shows “Ultra Premium Drams” and were probably the most popular drams there with, as they say, demand outstripping supply! The problem that we have now is that there are only a few bottles of current 30 year old bottling left and so we will have to carefully select the next cask (or rather double and triple check that the one which we have pre-selected is the correct one – what a difficult task!)

This weekend , 6th and 7th November, I travel to Leuven in Belgium where I will be at “Spirits in the Sky” and where I have a master-class.

On 12th, 13th and 14th November I will be in Leiden in Holland and then on 19th and 20th it is on to Örebro Öl & Whisky Festival in Sweden and another master-class.

The month finishes with a return to Inter-Whisky in Frankfurt on 26th, 27th and 28th November and another master-class.

Distillery

Production is underway for the final weeks of the year and again finishes in December with a week of production using peated malt.

Our Octave sales continue to grow as do the 250 Club sales and the variety of names chosen to adorn the ends of these casks is fascinating and I am sure that there is story behind many of them that we need to capture and share. If anyone wants to share why they have had a certain inscription put on their cask end or share details of a visit to the distillery then please do so at the group facebook page “Friends of Glenglassaugh” or send to me and I will post it.

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Slange

Stuart