The Whisky Lounge ‘What’s New? Festival Exhibitor Spotlight!’ – Whisky Festival News
How’s your week been? Ready for a dram or two? Me too!!
With two festivals – Edinburgh and Bristol – coming up up quick, we wanted to throw the spotlight onto a few exhibitors you might expect to see at the events this year. In this edition, we look at three very different but equally important producers of the tasty stuff!
Read on…
Bushmills haven’t been to any of our festivals since…. well, I cannot actually remember, it was that long ago! So we are very excited to see them and what they’ll bring along for you to sample.
One of the oldest still operating distilleries in the UK and world (even if you ignore the slightly spurious date of 1608, when a licence was granted for distilling on the land). It has been unapologetically been producing its iconic triple-distilled single malt whiskey since 1784.
It was bought by Proximo Spirits, from Diageo, in 2014, and we’re looking forward to seeing and tasting what the new owners have done so far. Janice Snowdon, who you may remember from hosting another Irish whiskey’s stand at our shows over the last few years, will be on hand to talk it all through with you. You can even ask her about their new distillery, ‘Causeway‘…
*Interesting fact. Bushmills (specifically the ‘Black’ Bushmills) was Amanda’s father’s favourite tipple…respect.
Another ‘new to us exhibitor’, and a welcome addition indeed.
Gleann Mòr are a relatively new operation, based in Edinburgh, bottling fine spirits, since 2015. Their main focus is whisky (yay!) and they have a couple of exciting whisky ranges, with ‘Rare Finds’ being at the top of the ‘tree’, which is a premium range of single malts and single cask, single malts.
Another familiar face, Emily Coyle, returns to TWL, at most of the shows, with Gleann Mòr, and will be more than happy to tell you more as you taste their whiskies.
Waterford is a really interesting project. Mark Reynier, one of the main men behind the revival of Bruicladdich Distillery on Islay, in the the late 90s, has poured everything he learned and loves about whisky into this innovative distiller.
His, and Waterford’s, core belief and ‘unique selling point’ is that the land, climate and soil (or Terroir, as the French would call it) impacts the the barley, which in turn impacts on the final whisky produced from it. You have to admire the attention to detail and sheer ‘geekiness’ of their undertaking.
We are delighted that they will actually be premiering their oldest whisky to date – Cuvée Koffi – with a very interesting story behind it, at our Edinburgh event on the 15th June.
We will be spotlighting more exhibitors in coming newsletters, so keep an eye out for these!
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