Events

FIND THE PERFECT GIFT AT GLENTURRET DISTILLERY – Scotch Whisky News

Visit The Famous Grouse Experience this winter to celebrate the festive season with our fabulous Christmas Fayre, seasonal Afternoon Tea and a visit to Santa’s Grotto.

Our Christmas Fayre weekend on Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December (10am-5pm) is a great chance to get a head start on your Christmas shopping. Browse our wonderful range of stalls to stock up on exclusive gifts, crafts and stocking fillers. Our gift shop also offers a wide range of whisky as well as lots of unique gift ideas. Make friends and family famous by personalising a bottle of The Famous Grouse or The Glenturret Single Malt Whisky, or treat someone special to our limited edition Glenturret 18 Year Old Single Malt Whisky. And as it’s Christmas, make sure you keep an eye out for our very special guest – Santa who will be visiting and can be found in his truly magical grotto just waiting to talk to all the children!

Buy The Black Grouse Alpha Edition 70cl and receive 4 Black Grouse Tumblers FREE!

Buy The Naked Grouse 70cl and receive a Highland Whisky Cake & Spring Keyring FREE!

Buy The Glenturret Single Malt 70cl and receive 1 Famous Grouse Tumbler FREE!

For orders or more information on our products, please visit http://www.thefamousgrouse.com/store.

Springbank Distillery Tasting With Ranald Watson – Tue Nov 5 – 7PM – TONIGHT! – Scotch Whisky News

Springbank Distillery w/ Ranald Watson – Tue Nov 5 – 7PM – $35  

Featuring a lineup of 9 malts, including 5 never before tasted in Alberta! 

Campbeltown’s Sprigbank is Scotland’s oldest family owned distillery, and also the Kintyre peninsula town’s largest employer. In addition to Springbank the parent company,  J.A. Mitchel, also owns the Glengyle Distillery, producer of Kilkerran single malt and William Cadenhead, Scotland’s Oldest Independent bottler. We are very privileged to be hosting their travelling Brand Ambassador Ranald Watson for a tasting at KWM on Tuesday November 5. Ranald will guide us through a range of whiskies from Springbank, Kilkerran and Cadenhead including a 1977 Littlemill, the newest incarnation of Campbeltown Loch 21 Year and a Springbank cask bottled exclusively for Alberta:

  1. Campbeltown Loch 21 Year – $125.99
  2. Hazelburn 12 Year – $97.99
  3. Kilkerran Work In Progress 5 Bourbon – $62.99
  4. Kilkerran Work in Progress 6 Sherry – $62.99
  5. Springbank Gold Medal Marketing Cask 12 Year – $104.99
  6. Springbank 15 Year – $92.99
  7. Springbank 18 Year – $130.99
  8. Longrow Rundlets & Kilderkins – $92.99
  9. Cadenhead Littlemill 1977 – $376.99

Call 403-283-8000 to purchase tickets or visit here

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Isle of Arran Ambassador Night at Milroys of Soho November 7th, 2013 – Scotch Whisky News

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Isle of Arran Ambassador Night

Thursday 7th November 2013, 6.30pm Start
The Isle of Arran distillery opened in 1995 and has gone on to produce an iconic and quite frankly delicious single malt whisky. We are joined by their brand ambassador who will be talking us through their range as well as a limited release bottling. As with all our Ambassador Nights the £20 ticket price can be redeemed against purchases made on the night.

£20.00

All tastings take place at our tasting cellar:

Milroys of Soho,
3 Greek Street
London
W1D 4NX

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Scotch Malt Whisky Society “November Tasting – Vancouver” – Scotch Whisky News

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NOVEMBER OUTTURN TASTING

LEGACY LIQUOR STORE

1633 Manitoba, Vancouver

Wednesday, November 6th   7:00pm

$35 members/$45 non-members

To register please call 604-331-7900 

Vancouver’s November Outturn tasting will be held at Legacy Liquor Store on Wednesday, November 6th.Please join us for what promises to be an evening of great company and great scotch (including another 30th anniversary release) around Legacy’s beautiful tasting table!

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Ralfy’s Bonneville 2014 CrowdFunder Project! – Fast Whisky News

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Ralfy here  . . .   just to let you know that I am currently promoting a little Crowd funding Project at http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/bonneville-speed-week-2014/ where we aim to raise the funds to secure logistics of transportation of two motorbikes to Bonneville in 2014 for the Centenary of Speed Week.

The Team are current Double World Record Holders and have every chance of achieving up to six more World Record as part of the Isle of Man Year of Culture Event. Our mission is to show our community that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things with ambition and perseverance.

Bottles of whisky will continue to be involved on a regular basis, whether at auction as fund-raisers or as morale-boosters !

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Cú Dhub Black Whisky (Black Dog) Speyside at Nickolls & Perks – Scotch Whisky News

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Cú Dhub Black Whisky (Black Dog) 40% Alc Speyside

Bottles (1/70CL). Duty Paid. There’s more to Cú Dhub than just the novelty fact of it being the World’s only Black Whisky. Cú Dhub translates as ‘Black Dog’, and is distilled near the Forest of Gaick, where the Witch of Laggan (allegedly) roamed and encountered the creatures who gave this dram its name… A dark, dark whisky from the village of Drumguish near Kingussie. Check out this award winner at a great price…

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Tasting Notes
Colour: Solid black
Nose: Light and mild, sweetness, burnt wood, root of liquorice giving a cool impression.
Taste: Vanilla, hot notes of liquorice come forward, sweet, smooth and well-balanced.
Finish: Good balance between sweet and a hint of strong coffee. A whisky with a ‘bite’. The malt comes through.

…just £21.78 inc VAT per bottle!
£21.78 inc VAT
£18.15 ex VAT
Special Offer Save 15% Was £25.62

BUY BUY BUY!

A Night of Whisk(e)y in DC with Virginia Distillery Company – Whisky News

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An Night of Whisk(e)y

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Ristorante i Ricchi

6pm to 730pm

Please join us in Washington, DC for a tasting of four (very) different American whiskies: bourbon, rye, American peated single malt, and our own Virginia Highland Malt whisky. Taste what makes each whisky so unique, experience the whiskies paired with creative fare, and discover how to mix some great whisk(e)y cocktails.

Tickets are $35 and space is very limited. Click here to reserve your seat. 

Ristorante i Ricchi has created interesting and unusual food to pair with the whiskies, including grilled quail and walnut-crusted cheesecake (just to be clear, those are two separate dishes) among other delicious treats.

Our own Dan FitzHenry, who will lead the tasting, has concocted a menu of cocktails displaying the unique character of each of the whiskies, which will be available after the tasting. Watch him mix up a few, and learn what makes a good whisk(e)y cocktail great.

We’re excited to see you there!

1220 19th St NW

Washington, DC 22036

202.835.0459

Whisky Live Toronto – Whisky News

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Toronto’s all-new, re-launched Whisky Live kicks off whisky season with a bang. In a classy new venue at the Harbour Castle Westin Hotel and under new ownership the festival has done away with tasting vouchers and has an extensive demonstration area for each of the five steps in making whisky. Sample whiskies from Scotland, Ireland, USA, Canada, Japan, South Africa.  Tickets available at whiskylive.com

A Toast to Canadian Whisky TONIGHT! – Canadian Whisky News

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THE MUSEUM and The Companions of The Quaich Kitchener Waterloo Cambridge Chapter present A Toast to Canadian Whisky: A Celebration of Canadian Whisky, Food & Art. Distillers and distillery representatives from Beam Canada, Collingwood, Forty Creek, Still Waters and Toronto Distillery will join Davin de Kergommeaux for an evening of whisky and friends.

Tickets include a tutored tasting of 5 whiskies, light hors d’oeuvres and a copy of Davin’s award winning book, Canadian Whisky: The Portable Expert. Visit the tasting lounge after the whisky tasting to mix and mingle and taste more of the distillers fine whiskies.

– See more at: http://www.themuseum.ca/events/toast-canadian-whisky

 6pm to 9:30pm | Tasting begins at 7pm | Tickets: $85 + HST

Aberdeen University Malt Whisky Society Tasting Wenesday October 30th, 2013 – Scotch Whisky News

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Our fortnightly tasting will be taking place on 
Wednesday 30th of October at 6.30pm in BookEnds, Butchart Centre

Tickets will be on sale between 12-2pm. As usual they are £3!

We hope to see you there!
We will have some super whisky on offer.

ALL members must buy their membership for this year.
Please see details below about how to do this.

HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE MALT WHISKY SOCIETY

We also need to get EVERYONE to become a member of the Malt Whisky Society.
To do this follow these steps:
1. Go to www.ausa.org.uk
2. Register a new account
3. Search for “Malt Whisky Society”
4. Add “Malt Whisky Society Student Membership” (£2) to your basket (like amazon.com)
5. Go to your basket – you MUST add “Societies Union” membership (£2) before you can pay
6. Follow payment instructions – you NEED a credit/debit card to pay.
7. Bring along your reference on a bit of paper/your mobile phone to the next whisky event and we will give you your membership card.

CASH PAYMENTS
It is possible to pay for membership with cash at the Butchart Recpetion desk during opening hours.

£3 = 4 whiskies!

Please come along early – we can only fit so many people (legally) into Bookends
Come early to avoid disappointment 

You can still come to this event without becoming a member.
You should become a member as soon as possible.


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