Tullamore Dew launches Black 43 Irish whiskey- with pot still character and higher strength –

C&C International has launched a new premium Irish whiskey blend – Tullamore Dew Black 43 – that will be released in limited batches to the brand’s key markets.

The new product makes its world debut in the Czech Republic where distributor Stock has already achieved brand leadership for Tullamore Dew in the overall whiskey category. It will them be launched in other leading markets.

Crafted by Ireland’s eminent Master Blender Barry Walsh, Tullamore Dew Black 43 is a triple distilled blend, enriched by spicy full-flavoured pot still whiskey aged in old Oloroso sherry casks.  The ‘43’ in the name indicates its higher-than-usual alcohol strength.

Black 43’s distinctive pot still character is blended to appeal to Tullamore Dew drinkers interested in extending their drinking repertoire without moving to the more exclusive aged variants.

“The new Black 43 is packaged in the standard Tullamore Dew bottle as an everyday drink, but the deep matt black labelling and silver foil give it a strongly masculine and sophisticated personality – in line with our target audience expectations” says C&C International’s Marketing Manager, Benoit Batard.

“The extra strength and more complex flavour really add to the drinking experience and make a great addition to the award-winning Tullamore Dew range.”

Black 43 will increase Tullamore Dew’s range of consumer choice which already comprises Tullamore Dew, 10 Year Old Reserve, 12 Year Old Special Reserve and 10 Year Old Single Malt.

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Tullamore Dew Black 43 tasting notes:

Colour: Medium amber gold.

Aroma: Mellow spicy, fruity, slightly herbal. Malty, sherry notes, vanilla, toasted wood, faint citrus.

Taste: Medium bodied, fruity mellow, good complexity.  Spicy oily pot still flavours, sherry wood influence apparent, nutty, malty. Nice sweetness, some Christmas cake notes.

Finish: Mellow, spicy, sweetish.

Comment: More intensely flavoured than standard Tullamore Dew, with distinctive sherry notes and pleasantly spicy oily pot still whiskey flavours nicely balanced.

June Tippler Offer: Save on Apples & Pairs

Climb the apples and pairs to single cask heaven with our June Tippler Offer. Buy ANY pair of single cask malts in our online shop and buy 66.31 Apples at Halloween for £28.50 (save £11.70)…offer ends Thu 17 June

66.31 Apples at Halloween
Speyside Deveron
£28.50* inc. Free P&P (*with any single cask pair)
Unique among East Highlanders in being distinctly smoky, and this is a full-on example – smoked cheese, charred apples on a barbecue, then toffee apples and cinnamon sticks; a hint of sulphur and a taste at natural strength of sweet brown apples and wet fruit wood ash.
Age: 11 years     Cask: Refill ex-sherry butt

Pick ANY Pair to recieve 66.31 at the special price of £28.50, for more summer savings buy with our June Sweetheart Pairs

Summertime Sweethearts:
Buy Sweetheart Pairs 1.153 & 27.80 OR 123.5 & 63.25 for only £86
(save £10.40)

1.153 A cornucopia of mellifluous sweetness
Speyside Spey
£42.20 inc. Free P&P

27.80 Old hemp ropes in a fishing boat
Campbeltown
£54.20 inc. Free P&P

123.5 Feisty but fun
Highland Southern
£40.20 inc. P&P

63.25 The magic of flowers
Speyside Spey
£56.20 inc. P&P

SMWS Whisky Tasting & Events
Taste of Islay London Cruise- Edwardian Cruise Boat, Thu 17 Jun
Two Distilleries, One Day Tour – The Vaults, Sat 19 Jun
Blend Your Own Whisky Lunch – The Vaults, Sun 20 Jun
Wokingham Preview Sensory Tasting – Cantley House, Thu 24 Jun
Dundee Preview Tasting – Hilton Hotel, Fri 25 Jun
Inverness Preview Tasting – Kingsmills Hotel, Fri 25 Jun
Pan-Asian Curry Experience – London, Sat 26 June
A Night with Richard Paterson – London, Mon 28 Jun
Glenmorangie Tasting – 28 Queen Street, Thu 1 Jul
World Cup Quarter Final Viewing – Queen Street, Fri 2 Jul
World Cup Quarter Final Viewing – Queen Street, Sat 3 Jul

SIX June Outturn
@ Aberdeen Mal & Birmingham & Brighton Hotel du Vin
Sample SIX new June drams behind the bar at Aberdeen Malmaison and Birmingham and Brighton Hotel du Vin.  If you are in the area please stop in to say hello to us in our new home.

Enjoy: 123.5, 4.141, 31.19, 44.44, 23.64 & 33.86

Join the Scotch Malt Whisky Society at www.smws.com

Kilkerran OB ‘Work in Progress’ 2010 Release 46%alc.

From Glengyle Distillery, Campbeltown.

Official Tasting Note:

‘Nose: Light and fragrant, the nose leads you into the dram gently. Refreshing lemon citrus, hints of pear and just a dash of sherbet.

Palate: Masses of sweet vanilla immediately take over the tastebuds before the classic Campbeltown salt hits the tongue. Creamy toffee and butterscotch become apparent as the natural oils coat the mouth.

Finish: Gentle smoke comes from deep in the throat followed up by very pleasant ground spices.’

Kilkerran Work in Progress 2010 Release
Barcode: 610854677008

Price excluding VAT: £26.30
£30.90 Including VAT at 17.5%

Visit Loch Fyne Whiskies at www.lfw.co.uk

A ‘Smoke’ for Dad?

With Father’s Day fast approaching, get your Dad ‘smoking’ with a bottle of our finest Smokehead or Smokehead Extra Black.

Visit www.smokehead.co.uk to find your nearest stockist.

Buy Smokehead at the Glengoyne Online Shop

Visit the Smokehead website for Smokehead drinking suggestions, Screensavers and to find out more about Smokehead. www.smokehead.co.uk

Visit http://www.binnys.com/pages/?pid=33675 for locations

New Filling Store at Glengoyne

It was a momentous day for the distillery team last month when the very first cask was filled in the new Glengoyne filling store. The brand new filling store has been built as part of the new warehouse expansion.

Currently we can store up to 6000 casks, however when complete, the new warehouses will allow us to mature up to 50,000 casks at the distillery.

Wanted … Whisky Lovers to Choose Single Cask Bottling

Cask Idol – the search for the perfect dram – is a once in a lifetime opportunity to become part of the Glengoyne selection panel and help choose the first ever Glengoyne Distillery exclusive single cask whisky, to be bottled in 2011.

For £70 visitors are able to join the hunt on a tour of the distillery and warehouse no.8, as well as a tasting of Glengoyne’s previous three single cask releases. Guests then judge three mature samples drawn from the cask and are asked to write their own tasting notes for each. The most popular cask will be announced in April 2011 and released with one lucky fan’s name and tasting notes displayed on the label.

Joining the already highly popular and acclaimed selection of Glengoyne tours, along with the new Cask Idol tour, is A Century of Whisky.  A Century of Whisky (£150 per person) includes a tutored tasting of Glengoyne Distillery’s oldest, most valuable, and finest Highland Single Malt: the Glengoyne 40 Years Old, worth £200 per dram, as well as the exceptionally rare Isle of Skye 50 Years Old blended Scotch whisky. These two unparalleled whiskies, along with the Glengoyne 10 Years Old, represent a century of maturation.

Each dram will be tasted in its own bespoke crystal ‘copita’ glass, which guests take home as a memento of the day.  This is a truly unique opportunity to taste rare and expensive, top quality whiskies. Only 400 bottles of the Isle of Skye 50 Years Old blended Scotch Whisky, and 250 crystal decanters of the Glengoyne 40 Years Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky were produced, costing £1,000 and £3,750 respectively.

Visit Glengoyne at www.glengoyne.com

Glengoyne Distillery has launched a brand new personalised bottle shopping area at http://shop.glengoyne.com, completing the final stage of redesign for the online store.

With the aim of making the process of buying the award-winning whisky simpler, quicker and more enjoyable, all available Glengoyne products can now be purchased online, from the core range and special limited edition single cask bottlings, up to the super premium Glengoyne 40 Years Old.

One of the most popular elements of the online store, the exclusive personalised bottles and tubes of the 10, 17 and 21 Years Old Highland Single Malt Whiskies, has undergone a radical transformation.

The new, easy to use section allows customers to upload their image and type a unique message directly onto their personalised labels. A special new feature brings the design to life, allowing shoppers to preview an accurate depiction of the final label that will appear on the bottle and tube. As well as being more accessible to consumers, it is hoped that the completion of the personalised bottles section will also aid in boosting sales.

Glengoyne has offered an on-line shop since 2005, but decided to create a completely new shop platform, utilising the most advanced technology available in order to exceed customer expectations. Created by award-winning web design agency, The Weather Digital, the new online store provides a much more intuitive and richer experience to the visiting whisky fan. One of the key changes was improving the all-important checkout process.

Charlie Cutler, Managing Director of The Weather Digital explained: “The new process moves away from a multi-page “effort”, to a single page checkout. This is a much friendlier experience, reducing the number of would-be customers leaving the site before completing the purchase. Now users can choose whether to check-out as a guest or alternatively can register their details to review previous orders and make future purchases even quicker.”

Fiona Richardson, Retail Manager for Glengoyne commented: “We are delighted with the improvements to the online store, especially the new personalised bottle feature. As well as improving the customer experience, the new system makes the logistics of managing the personalised bottles sales much simpler and ensures an even better level of customer service. Since we commenced the reinvigoration of the online shop at the end of last year, it has already proved incredibly successful, increasing sales by over 53%.”

Other enhancements the new shop provides include:

– High quality photography allowing users to view products in much greater detail

– Newsletter sign-up to receive special offers from Glengoyne

– Email to a friend – to let your friends know about a product

– Build a wish list – keep a track of items you would like in the future

– Reviews – allow users to post up their reviews of the products

The new shop provides a powerful reporting tool, allowing the retail team to analyse who is buying products and what they are buying, ensuring the distillery is meeting all of the needs and demands of its customers. The shop also supports a range of special offers including voucher codes which can be used in future promotions by Glengoyne.

For more information on the new Glengoyne online store visit:

http://shop.glengoyne.com

Contacts:

Iain Weir, Marketing Director
Ian Macleod Distillers Ltd
T: 01506 852 205
E: iain@ianmacleod.com

Spoil Dad this Father’s Day

Spoil Dad this Father’s Day with a personalised bottle of Glengoyne Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

Create an utterly unique gift this Father’s Day with a personalised bottle of Glengoyne Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

The personalised bottles are available on the award winning Glengoyne 10 Years Old, 17 Years Old and 21 Years Old. To celebrate the launch of the new personalised bottle section on http://shop.glengoyne.com we are offering the personalised bottles for the price of the standard bottles.

The bottles and matching tubes both include a picture of your choice and a one-off message making it the ideal gift with a truly personal touch. Like the whisky, all labels are prepared by hand at ‘Scotland’s most beautiful distillery’, encapsulating the quality, heritage and craftsmanship that Glengoyne pride themselves upon.

Glengoyne is a subtle, complex whisky in which all of the delicate flavours are freely allowed to express themselves. The distillation at Glengoyne is the slowest in Scotland. The taste is nurtured from barley to cask for a smoother, richer flavour. Only the slowest distilling process, untainted by peat smoke, creates Glengoyne – The Real Taste of Malt.

Personalised bottles are available to buy online at http://shop.glengoyne.com, or call 01360 550 254. Postage and packing within the UK is £6.50, orders over £50 are free, please allow 10 working days for delivery.

Edinburgh & St.Andrews

Thinking about buying a cask?

You can now own your very own cask of Glenglassaugh spirit, for only £500!!!  With warehousing of up to 7 years, and a minimum of 3 years included in the price,  this is an amazing opportunity to own your own cask of whisky, at an incredibly low price.

Please contact us for more details regarding this great offer…

enquiries@abbeywhisky.com

Sláinte

Mike & Peter

Abbey Whisky

www.abbeywhisky.com