The Whisky Show is a new luxury whisky event that aims to showcase the finest examples of the distiller’s art. The inaugural Whisky Show will take place in London’s prestigious Guildhall on 6th-7th November 2009.

Focusing on premium bottlings above each brand’s standard expression (longer-aged whisky and/or special bottlings), The Whisky Show will offer a fantastic opportunity to both the knowledgeable connoisseur and the passionate whisky fan wanting to learn more.  With only limited spaces available for each day, tickets for this boutique event are sure to be in high demand.

Full details at http://www.thewhiskyshow.com/2009/nl/nl_090721.html

We have just been informed by the Whisky Exchange that they still have a few tickets left for both events as shown below;

Dear All,

We’re very grateful to have received such a massive response to the question ‘anyone for a Jura tasting?’ and, indeed, it has left us with a problem (130 people chasing 50 places). To alleviate this we’ve managed to get a second tasting lined up a few days later so you’ll have to choose between:-

Isle of Jura (Tuesday 11th August at 6.30pm)

Willie Tait the Brand Ambassador NOT Distillery Manager (naughty us!) will be running through 7 different expressions from the Isle of Jura distillery, at least 5 of which you’ll almost certainly never have tasted (one of them isn’t released and you’ll be the first members of the public to try it J )

VS.

Amrut Indian Single Malt (Monday 17th August at 6.50pm)

Ashok Chokalingam the International Operations Manager from Amrut Distillers in Bangalore will be coming along to show off 6 whiskies from their range:-

Amrut New Make Spirit

Amrut 46%

Amrut Peated 46%

Amrut Fusion 50%

Amrut Cask Strength 61.9%

Amrut Peated Cask Strength 62.8%

 AND 2 Single Malts from Scotland……

THIS WILL PRINCIPALLY BE A ‘BLIND’ TASTING, so you’ll need to be on your toes to pick out the scotches from this excellent line up

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Tickets for BOTH of these events will be available to book from 3pm on Tuesday 21st July   BUT!!!!!   you’ll have to decide which one you want to attend, as we intend to give as many people as possible a chance to get places at one of these events. If there are places remaining on either event after the close of business on Tuesday, we’ll make it an option for you to grab a slot on the other event.

If this sounds too confusing, when you ring to book just say which one you want to go to, and if you want to do both we’ll take a contact number from you and let you know if you’ve been successful!

Tickets for the Isle of Jura tasting will be £30pp, Amrut will be £20pp and there’ll be a maximum of 2 places per booking

Best of luck with the redial button

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,

We’re very grateful to have received such a massive response to the question ‘anyone for a Jura tasting?’ and, indeed, it has left us with a problem (130 people chasing 50 places). To alleviate this we’ve managed to get a second tasting lined up a few days later so you’ll have to choose between:-

Isle of Jura (Tuesday 11th August at 6.30pm)

Willie Tait the Brand Ambassador NOT Distillery Manager (naughty us!) will be running through 7 different expressions from the Isle of Jura distillery, at least 5 of which you’ll almost certainly never have tasted (one of them isn’t released and you’ll be the first members of the public to try it J )

VS.

Amrut Indian Single Malt (Monday 17th August at 6.50pm)

Ashok Chokalingam the International Operations Manager from Amrut Distillers in Bangalore will be coming along to show off 6 whiskies from their range:-

Amrut New Make Spirit

Amrut 46%

Amrut Peated 46%

Amrut Fusion 50%

Amrut Cask Strength 61.9%

Amrut Peated Cask Strength 62.8%

 AND 2 Single Malts from Scotland……

THIS WILL PRINCIPALLY BE A ‘BLIND’ TASTING, so you’ll need to be on your toes to pick out the scotches from this excellent line up

————————————————————————————-

Tickets for BOTH of these events will be available to book from 3pm on Tuesday 21st July   BUT!!!!!   you’ll have to decide which one you want to attend, as we intend to give as many people as possible a chance to get places at one of these events. If there are places remaining on either event after the close of business on Tuesday, we’ll make it an option for you to grab a slot on the other event.

If this sounds too confusing, when you ring to book just say which one you want to go to, and if you want to do both we’ll take a contact number from you and let you know if you’ve been successful!

Tickets for the Isle of Jura tasting will be £30pp, Amrut will be £20pp and there’ll be a maximum of 2 places per booking

Best of luck with the redial button

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

The Companions of The Quaich proudly present The Second Coming of Jim McEwan, Iconic Master Distiller & Legendary Lord of The Isles

The Albany Club, 91 King St East, Toronto

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15

Registration  5:45 pm       Dinner  7 pm sharp

Featuring  FOUR marvellous Murray McDavid malts
bottled by Jim at Bruichladdich Distillery,
Isle of Islay, plus a three-course dinner & coffee/tea

Members  $70      ~      Guests  $80

Only prepaid reservations can be accepted
NO payments at door — NO exceptions

Contact Ed Patrick  to reserve your spot(s) via quaich@interlog.com

and visit the Companions at http://www.thequaich.com/

Thursday, July 23, 6:30-8:30pm
Join Binny’s and Ardbeg Brand Ambassador Davinia Small in an exploration of the history of one of the most sought-after Islay distilleries, Ardbeg. We will be tasting the 10 year old, Uigeadail Cask Strength, 1991-16 year old Airigh nam Biest, and the rare Committee Release Supernova, one of the most heavily peated whiskies ever produced in Scotland. $20 W/Binny’s Card / $30 non-members. Reservations are required.
Call 312-768-4400 or email southloop@binnys.com for reservations.
Binny’s Chicago – South Loop
1132 S. Jefferson Street | Chicago | 312-768-4400

By John Hansell;

Willie Tait of Isle of Jura single malt scotch is bringing one bottle of a very special whisky to WhiskyFest San Francisco on October 16th.

As many of you know, we have a charity table at WhiskyFest where we feature rare whiskies. To be able to taste a wee dram of the whisky, you must make a small donation to charity.  (This time we have chosen “Meals on wheels” as our charity.)

Well, Willie is bringing something very special. I’ll let him tell you all about it in his own words. (I love Willie’s sense of humor!)

I put a hogshead of Jura down 0n the 23rd Nov 1989, on my daughters 13th birthday.  This was my legacy for my children, as they have already taken all my money.

When you hear people say that they made this particular whisky, as we all know it’s not always true. I was the Manager at Jura at this time and when I thought about laying down a cask, what better if I did actually go and make this Dram.

I started Milling, then Mashing, through for Fermentation and then I did the Distillation, finally filling the new spirit into a fine sherry Hogshead. I am going to draw enough for a bottle from the cask and give it a special label and package.

Will keep you informed on the work in progress.

At this year’s WhiskyFest San Francisco, we have asked six different “Whiskymakers” to create one unique bottle of whisky for charity. In the very near future, I will be telling you about the other five. You will be amazed!

You didn’t need another reason to come to WhiskyFest San Francisco, because it will already be a great event. But now you have an even more compelling reason to attend.

What Does John Know/Malt Advocate;

http://blog.maltadvocate.com/2009/07/13/rare-jura-whisky-at-whiskyfest-sf/

JULY 16TH THURSDAY £20

All of the Jolly Toper’s whisky tastings take place on Thursday nights from 7:30pm until approximately 10pm at the Tollbooth Tavern, 167 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh. 

A wee update:-

Carn Mor is a single Islay malt

Duthies is a blended malt

Auld Reekie is termed a malt

the other one is Smokehead 18yo single malt

Peat Monster describes itself as ‘malt whiskies from Port Askaig, Islay and Kennethmont, Speyside’

The Lagavulin : 18.10.1995 – 2009 54.4% European oak bottled for Feis Ile 2009

Contact the Jolly Toper via http://www.jollytopertastings.co.uk/

Dear All,

Following on from our stunning night with John MacDonald from Balblair, who pretty much blew everyone away with the 6 vintages from their range ( 2 of which aren’t released until later in the year and we can’t wait for the 1978 to become available!), we’re now ‘sounding out’ the potential take-up for our August tasting.

Willie Tait (Distillery Manager) will be here to show a whole range of new expressions from the Isle of Jura distillery on TUESDAY 11^TH AUGUST. The line up will include one or two expressions from the current range, before moving through all three of the new ‘Mountain’ (Paps) expressions. These are all 15 year old whiskies that have been ‘finished’ on different red wine casks and were launched at the Islay Whisky Festival a couple of weeks ago. To round out the evening we’ll be tasting the very rare 1974 vintage (anything that gets 91 points from Malt Maniac Serge Valentin is never to be sniffed at) AND a brand new expression which won’t be released until later in the year. We can’t tell you anything about this one as yet, so you’ll just have to turn up to see what it’s all about!

 Now it’s your turn…..

We suspect that many of you are away on holiday at this time of the year (slackers!) but the consequence is that we need to get an idea of how many people are likely to attend this evening. Put simply, we need to know if we’ll need to get a big room for this tasting OR whether we make it a more niche event that we hold in the shop, but that does limit us to a maximum of 30 guests.

Please let us know if you’d like to come along to this by dropping us a quick e-mail and we’ll take it from there. We’re not asking for a commitment, just trying to gauge the size of room that we’ll need.

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:- http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/

Some times the roll of the whisky dice brings up 4 bits & bobs of Canadian whisky news in a day….

Upcoming Events

August 23rd  – Sunday!  – 7pm

Cost: $100  

After a little break over the Summer can you think of a better way to spend a late August evening than to surround yourself by good food, great company and stellar whisky? I always welcome feedback on these events but as far as I can tell if it ain’t broke…… well you know the rest. In a purely scientific and rational approach we’ll dissect 5 different whiskies and rate them on the scale of “…I’ve had better…pretty good stuff….damn good…probably the best I’ve had in days…so good I can’t think straight and I forget my own name…”. Very serious stuff.

As always a pint and food are included in the price. 

To book a space call Andrew at 604-562-6026 or by e-mail http://andrew@caskstrength.ca

Slainte!

Andrew

A little bit of information about the above mentioned club and full details can be viewed at:

http://www.sassenachs-dram.co.uk/index.html