MEDIA INVITATION – KEEP JOHNNIE WALKER IN KILMARNOCK

Members’ Debate and Ministerial Statement 2 September

You are invited to attend a photocall and press conference in connection with the Diageo closure debate, as follows:

Date                Wed 2 September 2009

Place               Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

Timetable

4.15 pm           press assemble for photocall outside Scottish Parliament, with ‘Striding Man’ Johnnie Walker and the Walker girls

5 pm                debate

6 pm                press conference within Scottish Parliament

Present: Willie Coffey, MSP; Rt Hon Des Browne, MP; East Ayrshire Council Cross Party Group – Cllrs Douglas Reid, Maureen McKay and Tom Cook; union representatives

6.30 pm           press conference ends

Background

On Wed 2 September, the Diageo campaign will feature significantly in the Scottish Parliament. After Decision Time at 5 pm, a debate is scheduled to take place on a motion submitted by Willie Coffey MSP.

For further information about the campaign, visit www.keepjohnniewalkerinkilmarnock.com .

Further details will be issued before the debate.

The next in the series of tastings comparing officially bottled standard issue cask strength expressions of a malt with 4 independently bottled examples and a red herring (this is a figure of speach rather than a food pairing).

Macallan official bottle 10yo 58.5% (litre bottle)

Golden Cask 1992 – 2005 291 bottles 56.8% – no cask type stated but surely a Bourbon hogshead

Scott’s Selection 1985 – 2005 53% – same thoughts on cask as with the Golden Cask botttling

Scotch Malt Whisky Society 24.104 18yo 56.9% first fill sherry butt 612 bottles

Cadenheads 1987 – 10/08 20yo sherry butt 282 bottles 53.2%

Red herring

Tollbooth Tavern, Royal Mile, Edinburgh, 24th September 2009 7.30pm
£20/17 (discount for first timers/members)

Check http://www.jollytopertastings.co.uk for further details on these tastings as well as Bladnoch forum- events- Canongate tastings

From Mark at Whisky Whisky Whisky

September’s tasting will consist of anything that has not been aged for 3 years. Everything from new make straight off the stills to spirit that has been in a cask for two years. Plenty of distilleries are selling the stuff now, and not just the new ones, so it shouldn’t be a problem getting hold of some.

This tasting will be the weekend of 26-27th.

http://www.whiskywhiskywhisky.com/forum/

Hi,

This month’s live tasting thread is now open to cater for all timezones (and the fact that I’m going to the Auchentoshan Festival in an hour or two). Feel free to drop in at any point over the weekend, even if you don’t have anything from the southern hemisphere to hand.

http://www.whiskywhiskywhisky.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2274
—
Slàinte!
Mark (butephoto)

http://www.whiskywhiskywhisky.com/forum

Villa Konthor

Our holidays are over now while the preparations for our villa party on September 26th. & 27th. are proceeding. With our partners & suppliers we`ve managed to put up a great programme including tastings, talks, food, music & presentations.

We`re happy to have the Scotch Malt Whisky Society with us (Ansgar Eichler), Cadenhead`s Whisky Market Cologne (Gregor Nackend), Westwood Whisky (Olaf Manns) as well as The Nectar/Daily Dram (Mario Groteklaes). Of course, our local guys from MaRa, Whisky Fair & Whisky Agency will be there, too.

We`re looking forward to seeing you then! Feel free to contact us whenever we can help with accomodation or any other information:

more information to be found here: www.villa-konthor.de

Your contact: info@villa-konthor.de (Robin Pitz) 
 

MARA Malt Rarities

2009 is the year of our 10th. anniversary and so we`ll be doing our jubillee
tasting by the end of November. The Whiskys we`ll be having are listed down below:

Starter: Sennachie 30y.o. 75cl 43% “Single Malt”, dumpy green bottle
(bottled late 80ies)

Line-Up:
1) The Macallan distilled 1936 75cl 70° Proof bottled by G&M
2) Highland Park 19y.o. 75cl 43% James Grant, dumpy green bottle (dark
sherry)
3) Brora 30y.o. 70cl 52.4% Original Bottling (bottled 2002)
4) Bruichladdich 1966-83 75cl 53.5% Original Bottling “Riserva
Veronelli”(dark sherry)

Break / Buffet

5) Glen Rothes 27y.o. 1966-94 70cl 51.3% Wilson & Morgan (dark sherry)
6) Rosebank 20y.o. 75cl 57% Distillers Agency for Zenith/Bonfanti (bottled
mid/late 80ies)
7) Springbank 18y 1973-91 75cl 57.9% Cadenhead`s (dark rum)
8) Bowmore 75cl 43% Bi-Centenary, distillery bottling for the 200th
anniversary of Bowmore in 1979

For further details (date, price, location) please check our homepage www.maltwhisky-mara.de

Our anniversary bottling of Yamazaki 1989 Owner`s Cask 60% is still
available in small quantities @ Euro 155. For this and any other issue related to MaRa please do not hesitate to contact  roland.puhl@t-online.de 
 

Daily Dram

Our Daily Dram online shop has extended his range. We can offer 4 new bottlings as follows:

Glenrothes 1970, 39 years 47.9%, Duncan Taylor for The Nectar
Bruichladdich 1992, 17 years 46%, Bruichladdich Distillery exclusively for The Nectar
Ben Nevis 1995, 55.5%, Ben Nevis Distillery exclusively for The Nectar
Arran Malt 1998, 53%,  Isle of Arran Distillers for The Nectar

Coming soon – 4 new Daily Dram-bottlings will arrive in September:

Clynelish 1982, 27 years 46%
Undercover n°4 1990 (Speyside), 19 years 48%
Laphroaig 1996, 13 years 55%
Glen Garioch 1991, 18 years 46 %
Our current range is updated here:  www.daily-dram.de

Your contact: info@dailydram.de (Vincent Löhn) 
 

Whisky Agency

Our new series have been released now and some bottlings have already sold out.

We`ve therefore started to prepare our new range for autumn 2009 and look very much forward to offer you some beauties “from the good, old days” then again.

In the meantime we`ve gotten back some remainders of our “Liquid Library -Islay” set which we`ve originally done for export markets. It`s not much
left in fact but all seven bottlings are excellent for drinking and come
with nice art labelling (with works by Hans Dillesse www.hansdillesse.net).

We`ll have some for sampling with us at the Berlin Coepenick Fair next weekend and at the Villa Konthor Party by the end of September.

Our current range is updated here: www.whisky-agency.com and you may contact us: post@whisky-agency.com

Whisky Fair
Our 1976 Benriach bottlings have been doing really well & we`ve run out of
supply by now.

Now we`re proud to announce our next bottling for arrival during October:
Lochnagar 1972, dense & oily body, thick & powerful – a typical old-style
Highland character from the golden period of whisky production.
Excellent, as we find it!

The present stock is to be found here: Whisky Fair Online Shop (Whisky Fair Online Shop) & all additional info here:  info@whiskyfair.de
 
Miscellaneous
Our Limburg Stand will be travelling through fairs & festivals as follow:

Cöpenicker Whisky-Herbst
Desta Volkach
Celtic Weekend & Tobacco Days
Whisk(e)y Pur, Aschaffenburg
 
 
Sincerest Regards and many greetings from Limburg/Germany
 
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Dear all,

This is just to let you know the tickets for our Chivas Tasting are on sale NOW. They are £25 per person, and a maximum of 2 per person. Please be quick, and/or patient with the redial button as we have but the one telephone, and we are likely to limit this to only 30 places.

Thanks

The Team

The Whisky Exchange

Vinopolis

1 Bank End

London

SE1 9BU

Tel:-  +44 (0) 207 403 8688

Fax:- +44 (0) 207 403 8788

e-mail:-   vinopolis@thewhiskyexchange.com

website:- www.thewhiskyexchange.com

Dear All,

Highland Park places all went in an hour yesterday, so we’re moving on to the next options:-

In addition to this, we’ve also got the services of Mr Phil Huckle from Chivas Regal on the evening of Monday 21st September. For those of you that assume that blend is inferior to single malt and that the word conjures up some fairly horrific memories of a bottle of Glen Bagpipe ‘Finest’ (sic) Blended Whisky that some benevolent soul picked you up from Tesbury’sdasons for Xmas (which you’ve subsequently used for removing sticky-tape residue), we’d say that you’ll definitely be missing out on a treat. Longmorn and Strathisla are two of our favourite whiskies and they, along with some 18yo grain whisky, form the heart of Chivas Regal’s 18yo Blend and we’re never slow to recommend a bottle of that to anyone who’s looking for a great blend.

This is a rare chance to experience how the ‘ingredients’ of a blend come together and you can judge for yourself if the sum is greater than the parts. At the moment we’re likely to limit this event to a maximum of 30 places and tickets for this will be £25 each which will go on sale from 3pm on Thursday 27th August.

All that remains is for us to wish you the best of luck with the redial button and we hope to see as many of you as possible over the course of September, even if you only call round to see the Ardbeg Beastie-Mobile on Saturday 19th….

Kind regards

The Team

The Whisky Exchange

Vinopolis

1 Bank End

London

SE1 9BU

Tel:-  +44 (0) 207 403 8688

Fax:- +44 (0) 207 403 8788

e-mail:-   vinopolis@thewhiskyexchange.com

website:- www.thewhiskyexchange.com

SCOTCH TASTING
Friday, September 4, 6:00-8:30pm

Taste over 40 of the worlds finest Single Malt and Blended Scotch Whiskeys! It is recommended you eat prior to the tasting, bring a designated driver or be picked up after this event. Our Gourmet Grocery will provide crackers, bread and cheese. $25 W/Binny’s Card / $30 non-members.

Call 630-717-0100 or email naperville@binnys.com for reservations.
Naperville 790 Royal St. George | Naperville | 630-717-0100

 http://www.binnys.com/

Whisky tasting tonight (Monday) at 37 Lower High Street, Stourbridge £25, still some places left – 730 kick off phone Dave on 01384 394518.

For further details on Nikolls and Perks please visit them at http://www.nickollsandperks.co.uk/

Dear whisky friends

It’s almost maltstock time. Less than two weeks until the very first edition. We just wanted top update you in the latest news. This will be the last newsletter for this first Maltstock edition. For all of you who unfortunately can not make it this year, we hope to see you next year!

Free tastings

As mentioned in our previous newsletter we have several very nice free tastings at Maltstock. But booking is required. Pease go to www.maltstock.com now and reserve your seat at one or more of the free tastings. The Jim McEwan tasting is already fully booked.

Detox walk

We have also added a new whisky experience: the Detox Walk. Enjoy the beautiful surroundings of the Maltstock location with an experienced guide. This whisky experience will be unique, because it will not involve any whisky. Get detoxated for another full day of whisky pleasure at Maltstock. The walk will be right after breakfast on Saturday morning and will last for about an hour. The Detox Walk is also for free. But we do ask you to make a booking in advance. Just go to the website and look under “free tastings”.

Maltstock T-shirt

A lot of people have asked if they could buy a Maltstock t-shirt. Well now you can! Just click on the t-shirt on the Maltstock website and order your “I was there” t-shirt. They will have to be ordered before August 31st in order to be ready for Maltstock. They will cost you just € 15,- euro’s

Sample Share

One of the guests at Maltstock is Christof. He recently started a big sample share website. www.gedeeldevreugde.be (for the non-Dutch speakers “shared enjoyment”). If anyone would like to order a sample simply contact Christof through his website and he can bring the samples for you to Maltstock.

Also Nils from Kings Court Whisky Society is selling part of his whisky collection. Enclosed is the list. If anybody is interested please contact Nils at nreinaerts@gmail.com and he can bring the bottle(s) to Maltstock.

That’s all for know. If you haven’t booked for Maltstock, please just contact us, there are still a few beds available. Together with all of you we  are sure it will be a weekend to remember! Looking forward to seeing everybody in two weeks!

Slainte!

Teun, Bob and Maltstock team

www.maltstock.com
the international whiskyclub gathering

www.bruichladdies.nl