Father’s Day Offers

Why not make Father’s Day an experience he will love this year and treat him to one of our special offers? From a personalised bottle to a day at our Whisky School we have something for everyone. To find out more about these fantastic offers have a look here

Whisky of the Month

The Glenturret Single Cask 328 Brock Malloy Edition 70cl Cask Strength is our Whisky of the Month. This truly rare and exclusive bottle is available online here

This Bank Holiday Monday (this arrive much too late for us to publish any sooner however the sale is on until Sunday May 31st – One Week Monday to Sunday – Whisky Intelligence) for one week only Single Malts Direct are offering FREE UK delivery on all orders. We have the best range of Duncan Taylor products anywhere on the internet and some great collector edition bottles.

For any further information contact the team on info@singlemaltsdirect.com

Thanks for doing business with us. Sincerely, The Single Malts Direct Team www.singlemaltsdirect.com

Single Malts Direct, 36 Gordon Street, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, AB54 8EQ, Scotland UK

+44 (0) 845 606 6145

+44 (0)1466 792106

info@singlemaltsdirect.com

UPCOMING TASTINGS & EVENTS

The Vaults – Tue 26 May

Feis Ile is underway, celebrate in our spiritual home with 5 BIG peaty drams & supper More >

New Members’ Tasting

19 Greville Street – Wed 27 May

Designed to welcome new members and share our passion for single cask whisky More >

UK-wide Preview Tastings

Fri 29 May

Enjoy our preview selection of drams from June’s Outturn along with supper

More NEWCASTLE >

More WOKINGHAM >

More DUNFERMLINE >

More GLASGOW >

June Outturn Preview Members Tasting

The Vaults – Thu 4 June

Sample 5 drams with supper and get your bottles before they run out More >

New Outturn Open Tasting

19 Greville Street – Sat 6 June

Try out five single cask whiskies from this month’s new list with cheese from Ian Mellis. More >

Steak and Chips Sampling Session – ‘New Style’

28 Queen Street – Tue 9 June

NEW – Explore a wide range of flavours with an unprecedented SEVEN smaller samples More >

Browse All Tastings >

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

NEXT AUCTION GOES LIVE ON TODAY!

Our next auction will go live on Monday 25 May and ending on Tuesday 2 June. We have an exciting line-up of bottles, with plenty of single malts, old blends, everyday drinking whiskies and a good selection of miniatures. Our Japanese whisky selection is strong, with bottles from Karuizawa and Hanyu, and some bottles that were only released in Japan. Look out for the following bottles, and good luck with your bids!

• Hanyu Joker Monochrome – from the oldest vintage and the last release to complete the Hanyu Card Series
• Johnnie Walker 1805 The Celebration Blend – just 200 bottles were made to celebrate the 200th anniversary of John Walker’s birth, and were only given to dignitaries and VIPs
• The Macallan in Linley Miniatures Trinket Box – a set of six miniatures of Fine & Rare Macallans from 1947 to 1989
• Highland Park 40 Years Old – one of the oldest Highland Parks ever released
• Karuizawa 1984 Sherry cask #3662 – a joint bottling from Shinanoya and The Whisky Exchange

To find out more, please email info@whisky.auction,

call Enrico Gaddoni on +44 (0)20 8838 9381

or visit the website https://whisky.auction.

A Day at The Distillery

Visiting The Glenlivet distillery during Speyside whisky festival is quite an experience. Tasting the spirit and seeing photographs of the landscape beforehand, you build up your own picture: remote warehouses nestling into the surrounding hillside, the unmistakable smell of malt, the hum of the mash tun. All of which is true, but in reality there’s so much more – the welcoming hospitality, the sense of history, slick modern industry.

The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival has been drawing whisky fans from around the world to the distilleries of the Scottish highlands since 1999. Over six days, whisky-themed events take place across the region encouraging visitors to celebrate Scotland’s national drink in a variety of fun and informative ways.

The Glenlivet has been involved with the Spirit of Speyside Festival since its inception, and the sense of celebration at the distillery is palpable. The place is buzzing as visitors enjoy live music, whisky tastings, demonstrations and tours laid on specially. Key members of the distillery team mingle with visitors, happily sharing stories and whisky wisdom. The festival is a wonderful opportunity to get to the heart of the single malt that started it all.

Discover how Spirit of Speyside Festival is celebrated at The Glenlivet

Calling all budding Munro Baggers!

This year, we’re once again running the Isle of Skye Blended Scotch Whisky Munro Challenge in partnership with outdoor specialist, Tiso. We’re aiming to raise as much money as possible through sponsorship for Scottish Mountain Rescue by encouraging Scots to climb one or more of Scotland’s Munros throughout the month of September 2015.

Last year, the Munro Challenge raised over £21,000 for the critically deserving charity and these funds are currently helping with the provision of SARDA search and rescue dogs, avalanche training and specialised rescue equipment.

We’re inviting you to fly the flag for Scottish Mountain Rescue this September! Sign up here and we’ll send you a registration pack, including an Isle of Skye Blended Scotch Whisky flag for you to fly at the summit of your Munro. Share you ‘summit selfies’ to our Facebook or Twitter pages in September for your chance to win a bottle of our award-winning 8yo blend.

Keep watching our Facebook and Twitter pages for outdoor safety tips, kit advice and Munro recommendations from Scottish Mountain Rescue and Tiso between now and challenge month in September.

We can’t wait to hear about all your Munro experiences on the way!

Isle of Skye Blended Scotch Whisky

WHISKY FRINGE 7th, 8th & 9th August.

Tickets for our very popular annual WHISKY FRINGE event will be going on sale NEXT WEEK – Wednesday 27th May at midday. Click on the banner for full details.

Our next whisky tasting will be on Wednesday 24th June and this time round you will have the opportunity to sample six excellent and diverse Japanese whiskies from the Nikka range, presented by Phil Nickson of Speciality Brands.

Set up by Masataka Taketsuru, the founding father of Japanese whisky, Nikka own both the Miyagikyo and Yoichi distilleries and these provide two different styles of whisky that are bottled not only as single malts but also in combination as vatted malts and in blends.  Miyagikyo distillery was designed to produce light, elegant, fruity and floral whiskies whereas Yoichi (which continues to operates traditional coal fired stills) produces a distinct rich, smoky, spicy and oily whisky.  We will taste both of these on the night along with two pure malts (i.e. vatted) which, because they contain varying proportions of the two single malts, have very different characteristics.  There will also be the fruity, zesty Coffey Grain to sample and the rich and robust Nikka from the Barrel blend.

The rapidly growing popularity of Japanese whiskies means that tickets for this event will go very quickly so make sure you don’t delay in booking yours!  If you do miss out on getting tickets then please contact us to register your interest as there is a possibility that we may be able to run a second night of this tasting.

Please note Tickets for the Nikka whisky tasting will be available to buy from 12 noon on Thursday 21st May and no bookings will be taken before this time.  The maximum number of people per booking is 6.

See below for all the details and if you have any queries just contact us.

Sláinte! Fran and Ken Arkwrights Whisky and Wines www.whiskyandwines.com

UPCOMING EVENT
Name Nikka Whisky Tasting
Date Wednesday 24th June 2015
Time 7.00 for 7.30pm
Venue Stanton House Hotel, Stanton Fitzwarren SN6 7SD

Details Admission to the tasting is by ticket only.  Tickets are £15 per person, and this also entitles you to a discount of £3 against a bottle of one of the featured whiskies if bought or ordered on the night of the tasting.  The whiskies tasted will be available to purchase on the night so come prepared!

Tickets are very strictly limited, and allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.  They are restricted to a maximum of 6 per booking and as these tastings usually sell out very quickly it is best to book as soon as the tickets are released.  To buy tickets just log on to www.whiskyandwines.com from 12 noon on Thursday 21st May and place an order for the number you require. Please note that tickets can not be reserved without payment and are non-refundable.

N.B. We have negotiated special rates at Stanton House Hotel for anyone who wants to stay overnight after the tasting – just quote ‘Arkwrights- whisky tasting’ when booking by ‘phone or email.

Ardbeg is celebrating its 200th Anniversary at a London event where guests will be taken through the past, present and future of the brand. The experience will consist of an immersive 3 course meal and paired with specially selected Ardbegs.

Tickets for the London event are now available to purchase here

The Vinyl Factory 30th May 2015 with two exclusive events – 12:30pm lunch and 7:30pm dinner

• Hosted by Brendan McCarron (head of Maturing Whisky Stocks).
• Tasting of special Ardbegs including the new Limited Edition, Ardbeg Perpetuum.
• Included in the price of each ticket is a unique bottle of Ardbeg Perpetuum engraved with Dr. Bill Lumsden’s and Brendan McCarron’s signatures to commemorate the occasion.
• There are 80 places per sitting. Tickets are now on sale at £200 each, and are limited to four tickets per person.

If you can’t join us you can purchase Ardbeg Perpetuum at The Whisky Shop from June 13th.

Hello there!

Now that World Whisky Day 2015 is behind us I’d like to thank you on behalf of the whole team for your effort. This year we had a record number of events take place in more countries than ever before, and on, for the first time ever, all seven continents. The success of the day is all down to people like you running events big and small, so here’s to you for making such a good one.

Head over to http://worldwhiskyday.com/blog where you can read our report from the day. More importantly, though, I’d love to hear from you and learn about your own experiences on the day, so please do get back in touch with any comments, reports, pictures, reviews etc.

World Whisky Day 2016 is being held on Saturday 21 May, so be sure to keep the date in your diary. It’d be incredible to think that you could join us again for some more of the good stuff. What’s more, you don’t even have to wait another 365 days to get involve; our vision for World Whisky Day is to create an entire culture surrounding it throughout the year, and as part of this we have recently starting producing a weekly mail-out called Whisky Wednesday. If you’ve not done so already, visit http://worldwhiskyday.com/email where you can read the previous issues and sign-up for free.

Cant wait to welcome you on-board for some more adventures in the world of whisky.

All the best,

Malcolm Triggs

World Whisky Day

Saturday 16 May 2015

t: 0131 555 6494

w: http://www.worldwhiskyday.com/