LONDON: Glenfiddich X Skylight Rooftop – Burns Night Celebration 

On Friday 25th January, Glenfiddich whisky will be taking over London’s most imaginative rooftop destination, Skylight at Tobacco Dock for London’s biggest Burns Night celebration. This evening will also kick off the closing weekend of Skylight’s winter season.

In honour of the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, the rooftop will undergo a boozy makeover from the multi award-winning distillery, bringing with them signature whisky tipples. Entertainment, aside from the rooftop ice rink, will come from traditional Scottish musicians alongside the spectacle of a highly-anticipated rooftop ceilidh. Expect music, singing, dancing and storytelling.

Guests will be able to cosy up under the heated pergola or grab a table and settle in on the lower floor, equipped with DJ to dance the night away. Skylight’s rooftop igloos will also be available to book – the perfect place to pull up a blanket and sip on mulled drinks to warm the cockles. Street food will also be on offer, with some Scottish twists added to the menu.

Founded in 1887 and situated in Dufftown, the Glenfiddich Distillery is one of the worlds best known whisky brands and is home to the world’s most-awarded single malt.

Tickets available HERE

THE WHISKY SHOW: OLD & RARE 2019

The world’s greatest whisky bar opens its doors once more – a world of fine, rare and antique single malts and spirits; unrepeatable drinks available for as little as £2. Don’t miss this opportunity to try drams and forge memories that will stay with you forever. 23-24 February 2019 – tickets on sale now.

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The Whisky Shop Dufftown New Year Update

This is a very brief update on a few items using our new format newsletter.

For those of you who mark this event we wish you all a very happy new year and all the best for 2019

Our new year sale started today, 2 January.  Here is the full list of our new sale items.

Preview Sale

Exciting Stop the Press News!!!

We are working on a brand new festival for 2019.  It will be around the second weekend in October each year (10 to 13 October 2019).  Put those dates in your diary.  We are not ready to tell you more than this at the moment but we wanted you to be amongst the first to know.  More very very soon.

The Whisky Shop Dufftown · 1 Fife Street · Dufftown, Moray AB55 4AL · United Kingdom

23-24 FEBRUARY 2019
GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, GLASGOW

MASTERCLASSES

MACALLAN

with Willie Phillips and Sukhinder Singh
Saturday 23 February, 4pm
£300

Tickets are now available

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Former Macallan managing director Willie Phillips is credited as the man that made Macallan.

With a pioneering approach to bottling very old and vintage whisky, former Macallan managing director Willie Phillips is the man who made Macallan what it is today. He positioned Macallan as ‘the Cognac of whisky’ and combined irreverent advertising with his dedication to rich new-make spirit matured in sherry casks, creating through the 1980s and 1990s the template for Macallan’s rise to fame.

Join Willie Phillips and Macallan-collecting Whisky Exchange founder Sukhinder Singh for an exploration of old and rare Macallan from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, complete with distillery tales from someone who saw it all.

Please note: you must have a valid ticket to the Saturday 23 February session of The Whisky Show: Old & Rare to attend this masterclass.

The line-up:

Macallan 8 Year Old Bottled 1980s
Macallan 12 Year Old Bottled 1980s
Macallan 1974 18 Year Old
Macallan 1968 18 Year Old
Macallan 1958 Bottled 1970s
Macallan 1958 25 Year Old Anniversary Malt

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TERMS & CONDITIONS

Products are offered subject to the following terms and conditions:

1. Tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.

2. We do not issue physical tickets. When you make your booking, your name will be added to a guest list for the event.

3. In the case of cancellation on part of the organisers, the full ticket price will be refunded to you. We reserve the right to make cancellations up to 24 hours before the event.

Whiskey Fest 2019 tickets are on sale!

Grand Tasting
The Grand Tasting will start at 8pm on Feb 2nd. Those of you who purchase a Masterclass ticket will also be able to attend the Grand Tasting (purchase this ticket only if you do not wish to attend a Masterclass).

Shelter Point Masterclass
Representatives from Shelter Point Distillery will putting on a Masterclass this year.

Whiskey Around the World Masterclass
This Masterclass is presented by Dale Roberts and Maureen Fritz-Roberts of the Old House Law and Notary Public.

Victoria Caledonia Distillery & Twa Dogs Brewery Masterclass
Presented by the founder, Graeme Macaloney. Seminar will be held outside in a heated area.

Blended Malts from Rare Drams Masterclass
Join Adam Bradshaw as he takes you on a tour of some limited cask strength blended malts from Douglas Laing’s Regional Malt Collection and Old Perth from Morrison & MacKay.

All Masterclasses will be starting at 7pm on Feb 2nd.

COMOX VALLEY Whisky Fest TICKETS

Proceeds from  the Comox Valley Whisky Fest support a number of charitable organizations in the valley and we’re so grateful for your support! Thank you!

Raasay While We Wait 2018- £53

Raasay Distillery has now launched Raasay While We Wait 2018 – the fourth expression to date of the brand’s independently bottled single malt – which was created as a representation of the flavours that drinkers can expect from future Raasay scotch whisky. The release of Raasay While We Wait 2018 begins the countdown to 2020 when the first ever Raasay single malt in Scotch whisky history will be released. Designed as a peaty and fruity single malt, each iteration of Raasay While We Wait has been crafted through the vatting of two malts from a single Highland distillery – heavily peated at 45ppm and unpeated – matured in bourbon barrels and finished in Tuscan Montechiari wine casks.The team at Raasay Distillery are keen to push the boundaries of the spirit, exploring the effect that different finishing times and casks have on the flavour profile of the spirit.

The Tweeddale: Grain of Truth – £50

Heritage brand The Tweeddale has now added a new single grain whisky to its repertoire – Grain of Truth. The Tweeddale was first blended in 1820 in Coldstream in the Scottish Borders, and later continued by Richard Day from 1895 to 1940. In 2009 Alasdair Day – great-grandson of Richard Day – decided to recreate The Tweeddale and to continue Richard Day’s eminent legacy. Grain of Truth represents Alasdair Day’s latest effort to create a memorable, rich and complex single grain whisky, based on traditional Victorian craftsmanship with innovative maturation techniques. Grain of Truth possesses an uncommon composition of 50% wheat and 50% malted barley. The spirit was matured in bourbon barrels and finished for nine months in fine Oloroso sherry hogsheads imbuing the whisky with rich and warming honey and orange notes on the nose. This evolves into touches of dark chocolate and cognac on the palate, which is balanced by Oloroso, orange and dark chocolate notes, with a dry and spicy finish. Grain of Truth is delicious neat, on the rocks or with a mixer.

Also, if you are compiling a ‘Things to do for Burn’s Night’ guide please see the below suggestion from Raasay Distillery. 

Isle of Raasay Distillery’s Burns and Whisky Weekend package – £339

The Isle of Raasay Distillery is hosting a Burns and Whisky Weekend a stone’s throw away from where the poet, Sorley Maclean, was born. The offering includes a two-night stay for two including all meals, checking in Friday 25th January and checking out Sunday 27th January 2019. Guests will dine at the distillery on Friday evening and enjoy a hearty lunch on Saturday before an exclusive whisky tasting and warehouse tour with the distillery’s co-founder, Alasdair Day. The weekend will finish in style with a traditional Burns supper on the Saturday evening, featuring traditional Scottish dishes, from traditional haggis to rhubarb cranachan with homemade shortbread and whisky fudge. Please see more information here

If you were to say Robert Burns’ birthday is just an excuse for us to break out the good stuff, we would say ‘No, no, no, no!’…and then we might soften a little and say, ‘well…maybe’.

The truth be told, is somewhere in-between, with a respectful nod to the Bard but with the emphasis very much on the whisky aspect of the evening.

Funny that with a company name like ours…

What you can be sure of is that we will be bringing some of our favourite drams and you can be sure we only drink the good stuff…

We’re also including an authentic and tasty half time supper of Haggis, neeps and tatties.

This tasting features 6 whiskies and as usual you won’t be tasting these whiskies alone, you’ll be in the company of fellow whisky folk and of course one of our whisky experts, who will be on hand to entertain and enlighten you in the ways of the dram.

January 22nd

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Burns’ Tasting 2019 – Sheffield

The Sheffield Tap

Platform 1B, Sheffield Station

Sheffield, S1 2BP

https://thewhiskylounge.com/event/burns-tasting-sheffield-2019/

January 23rd

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Burns’ Tasting 2019 – Liverpool

Fly in The Loaf

13 Hardman Street

Liverpool, L1 9AS

https://thewhiskylounge.com/event/burns-tasting-liverpool-2019/

January 24th

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Burns’ Tasting 2019 – York

Brigantes

114 Micklegate

York, YO1 6JX

https://thewhiskylounge.com/event/burns-tasting-york/

DIAGEO SPECIAL RELEASES TASTING

WITH COLIN DUNN
DIAGEO WHISKY AMBASSADOR

Colin Dunn is European Whisky Ambassador for Diageo and a regular at The Whisky Exchange. With a career spanning more than 35 years, there is no one better to present these limited-edition Special Releases. Talisker 8 Year Old. Cladach Blended Malt. Oban 21 Year Old. Inchgower 27 Year Old. Pittyvaich 28 Year Old. Lagavulin 12 Year Old 2018. Caol Ila 15 Year Old & Caol Ila 35 Year Old

Monday 21 January 2019
7.30pm-9pm

£60

Please arrive at the venue from 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start

Tickets on sale now!

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