Events

Adelphi Tasting at CSN Wine & Spirits Calgary Alberta

Adelphi – Bottling Amazing Single Cask Whisky
Date: Friday, September 4th, 2009
Time: 7 – 9 PM

Tickets: $35

The Honourable Alex Bruce (a direct descendant of King Robert the Bruce as well as James Bruce, the Eight Earl of Elgin and an early Governor General of Canada), Sales and Marketing Manager of Adelphi, will be here at CSN in early September.  He’ll be taking us through some of Adelphi’s best single cask single malt Scotches, which are found EXCLUSIVELY here at CSN Wine & Spirits.

CSN Wine & Spirits
1716 Centre Street NE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Phone: 403-296-0240
Email: wineroom@csnwine.com

Visit CSN Wine & Spirits at http://www.csnwine.com/

www.whiskywhiskywhisky.com online Australian Tasting

This is a reminder that this month’s online tasting will take place next weekend. The theme is Australasian August so no surprises for guessing what whiskies are being discussed. I hope those of you locals will take the opportunity to discuss your native malts and give us your thoughts on the whiskies that the rest of the world might not yet have discovered.

More details in this thread:

http://www.whiskywhiskywhisky.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2156

I hope to see you then.

—

Slàinte!

Mark (butephoto)

http://www.whiskywhiskywhisky.com/forum

Auchentoshan Whisky Festival 29th August 2009

The Auchentoshan Whisky Festival will play host to a large range of activities including whisky masterclasses with some of the industry’s leading experts, mixology classes and cookery demonstrations from top chefs.

The festival also features an incredible line-up of activities and performances from Scottish talent including live music sets, chainsaw sculpting and Scotland’s finest farmers market.

The festival will also see the launch of Auchentoshan’s first triple conditioned real ale in the festival’s real ale tent.

Visit  http://www.auchentoshan.co.uk/festival/ for full details

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Highland Park Single Malt Tasting Evening (Advanced Warning) at the Whisky Exchange Vinopolis London

Hello All,

We are approaching the time when you have to consider selling the grandparents or trying to get a magical ticket to our amazing evening being conducted by Gerry Tosh of Highland Park Distillery.  This promises to be quite a fine evening and I am sure that the selection we will be sampling would cause even the most die-hard single malt fan to quiver in anticipation. 

The event itself will be held here at Vinopolis on Monday 7th September from 6.45pm. 

The price of the event will be £30.00 / ticket, with a maximum of 2 tickets/customer.

The tickets themselves will go LIVE on Monday 24th August at 3.00pm.  No reservations will be taken beforehand so don’t bother calling before 3pm.

Successful customers should meet in the Whisky Exchange shop from 6.30pm on Monday 7th September.

www.thewhiskyexchange.com

Iowa Native Distillery Forum – Des Moines, IA

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Iowa Native Distillery Forum – Des Moines, IA
August 27

Please join the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Commission for a series of forums discussing Iowa Native Distilleries. Discover the history. Discuss the present. Design the blueprint for the future.

Thursday, August 27th, 1:30PM at the State Capitol (Room 22), East 9th & Grand, Des Moines, Iowa

Wednesday, September 9th, 1:30PM at Templeton Rye, 209 East 3rd Street, Templeton, Iowa

Thursday, October 22nd, 1:30PM at Cedar Ridge, 501 7th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Thursday, November 19th, 1:30PM at the Division’s offices, 1918 SE Hulsizer Road, Ankeny, Iowa

For further information please visit the romantically named  Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Commission  at http://www.iowaabd.com/about/updates/event/10

Glenrothes Masterclasses in Glasgow & Edinburgh

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Such is the exceptional quality of our malt that our masterclasses are for a select few likeminded people only. I’m delighted to personally invite you and a friend to a very special Glenrothes Masterclass – one exclusive to members of our inner sanctum. (to join the inner sanctum please visit the Glenrothes using the link below).

I’ll tell you all about our distillery and charming malt, whilst savouring some of our Vintage collection and, of course, The Glenrothes Select Reserve.

Just as our Vintages are rare, places at our Masterclasses are limited. If you would like to be one of the select few, you can register by clicking on the link below for one of only two evening events:

26th August 2009, 7.30pm: 29 Club, 29 Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AJ
27th August 2009, 7.30pm: Mercure Point Hotel, 34 Bread Street, Edinburgh EH3 9AF

Ronnie Cox

Ambassador of the Glenrothes

http://www.theglenrothes.com/uk/

Northern California Tastings featuring Isle of Skye, Edradour and Sigantory

The confirmed schedule of tastings-seminars in Northern California, Fall 2009.

It is a rare opportunity for scotch connoisseurs or just the beginners to try 9 malts from different regions of Scotland, in different expressions (86 proof, 92 proof UCF and Cask Strength) at the various price points (from $28.00 to $ 150.00 per bottle).

The tastings will feature Isle of Skye, Edradour and Sigantory. The complete list of malts will be released in the beginning of September.

The attendees will be taken through the whisky making process, explained how the distilling techniques, location, the wood and etc. influence the final product.

Traverso’s
September 20 th
Contct
Michael or Fred
707-542-2530 or info@traversos.com

To be held
Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel
170 Railroad Street
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
4:30 pm

Admission
$ 50.00 – general
$35.00 –club member

Jackson’s Wine & Spirits
September 22
Ph. 925-284-4100

To be held
Metro Lafayette
3524 Mt.Diablo Blvd
Lafayette, CA 94549
6:30 pm

Admission is $ 45.00

The Whisky Shop
September 23
Ph. 415-989-1030

To be held:
E & O Trading Company
314 Sutter Str
San Francisco, CA 94108
6 :30 pm

Admission: $ 45.00

Mill Valley Market’s
September 24
Contact David Canepa @ 415-388-3222

To be held
Golf Course- Club House
280 Buena Vista Ave
Mill Valley, CA 94941

Admission: $ 20.00

7 pm

Roberts Market Portola Valley
September 25
Ph 650-851-1711

To be held
Parkside Grill
884 Portola Road Ste A 1
Portola Valley, CA 94028
6 pm

Maltstock Update

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Hello everybody,

Lees than four weeks to go to the very First edition of Maltstock. It really promises to be a great weekend. In this mailing we have the latest news or you on the free tastings at Maltstock, an update on the prizes for the whisky quiz and more.

Free Tastings at Maltstock – book online now

As mentioned before all the tastings/masterclasses at Maltstock are free! There is however limited amount of free tickets available. So we do need you make a reservation online before Maltstock. Just go to www.maltstock.com and click on “Free Tastings” in the menu. We have the following free tastings available:

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Ap Dijksterhuis
 Liquid Lunch
 12.00
 12.30
 
whisky writer
 judge four nice whiskies and write tasting notes
 
Billy Walker
 BenRiach/Glendronach
 12.45
 13.45
 
Master distiller BenRiach and GlenDronach
 
Gary Taylor
 wood
 14.00
 15.00
 
Speyside Cooperage
 wood, why it is so important and how we can control the colour and flavour of whisky
 
Stuart Nickerson
 Glengalssaugh
 15.15
 16.15
 
Master distiller Glengalssaugh
 
Jim McEwan
 Bruichladdich
 16.30
 17.30
 
Master Distiller Bruichladdich
 “Still working on a dream”
 
David Wilson
 Glencadam
 17.45
 18.45
 
Assistent distiller Glencadam
 
Down the drain tasting
we also want to try something different at Maltstock. We call it the “down the drain tasting”. We invite everybody to bring their worst whisky. See if we can create a WWI (Worst Whisky Index)

Whiskycast

In the attest episode of the Whiskycast is an interview Mark Gillespie did with Teun about Maltstock. For those interested: surf to www.whiskycast.com and check out episode 212 – august 9th. The interview starts right after the latest whisky news, after about 8 minutes

Whisky quiz – great pizes

In a previous mailing we told you about the whisky quiz which we will be having on the first night of Maltstock. We hope everybody will participate. It will be a bit of fun! Let’s see which club and which individual has the biggest whisky trivia knowledge.  The quiz will be Friday after diner and will include a few drams as well.

Already we have some terrific prizes to be won at the quiz. Many thanks to all the sponsors of the quiz!

We have already mentioned the Glenfarclas special VIP tour with George Grant for your club (up to 20 people). Also we just received a very special bottling of Connemara. A peated sherry finish which is not yet released in any market. So your chance to be one of the very firsts to have a bottle! Further more we have great prizes from Dalmore (like a bottle of King Alexander worth a 120,- pounds), Talisker, Glengoyne, Glenkinchie, Tomatin. And there are prizes on the way from Highland Park and Penderyn as well
 
Special Maltstock discount at Master of Malts

We have an other addition to the Maltstock Benefits. The very nice whisky shop in Royal Tunbridge wells is delighted to show their support for Maltstock by offering a 6% discount on any bottle from their website, and a double discount of 12% on any of their own ‘Master of Malt’ bottlings. Master of Malt offer probably the lowest prices in the UK, and also has very, very competitive shipping rates to Europe and worldwide. All you have to do is goo to www.masterofmalt.com and when checking out put the code MALTSTOCK09 in the comments section.
Please check the Maltstock Benefits section at our website. You will find it under “What is Maltstock”

Join us for an unique weekend of whisky fun! Everybody is welcome. All information at our website www.maltstock.com. An dif there are any questions at all just e-mail us.

Hope to see you all in September, see you at Maltstock!

Teun, Bob and the Maltstock team

www.maltstock.com
the international whiskyclub gathering

Scotch Malt Whisky Society August Outturn: First Friday Frolics

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We’re feeling frolicsome this First Friday. Not only does August see the start of our programme of Edinburgh Festival Tasting Events (book now at http://tinyurl.com/klm7pu ), this First Friday releases an exciting and eclectic mix of 13 Society bottlings. A delicious baker’s dozen.

Enjoy such delights as our Sizzling Summer Recommendations, buy individually or as a pair and save £10:

4.133 Sets the heather and gorse on fire
Highland Island
£52 inc P&P
“Then it turned ‘Chinese takeaway’ – special fried rice and hoisin sauce”

121.28 Banderas in a tuxedo
Highland Island
£43 inc P&P
“The Spanish influence was clear but civilised, imagine Antonio Banderas in a tuxedo”

Sizzling Summer Pair
Buy Society recommendations: 76.62 and 76.63
£85 inc P&P
Save £10

View the August outturn at http://tinyurl.com/nsmt2l

Nose around all our bottlings
Not found what you’re looking for? Try browsing all bottlings at http://tinyurl.com/nson8j

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, Macdonald House, 18 Westerton Road, Broxburn EH52 5AQ
Contact: sales@smws.com or call 0131 555 2929 (Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm).

Tastings – The Scotch Malt Whisky Society of Australia

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The Australian Branch of the Society have numerous tastings in August;

Friday 14th August Sydney Whisky Tasting 1
Friday 14th August Wollongong Whisky Tasting
Monday 17th August Canberra Whisky Tasting
Tuesday 18th August Sydney Whisky Tasting 2
Wednesday 19th August Melbourne Whisky Tasting 1
Friday 21st August Brisbane Whisky Tasting
Friday 21st August Adelaide Whisky Tasting
Wednesday 26th August Hobart Whisky Tasting
Friday 28th August Perth Whisky Tasting
Wednesday 2nd September Melbourne Whisky Tasting 2

Please visit the Australian branch of the Society via

 email: info@smws.com.au • web: www.smws.com.au

For Full Details!


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