Father’s Day on Sunday 16th June provides an excellent excuse to buy some delicious whisky. Dads come in all shapes, sizes and personalities, and so do our whiskies. So, whatever style you’re looking for, you’ll be able to find the perfect match in the Compass Box range.
Happy Father’s Day!
Behind the Blend with Ludo
‘Blendologie’, Part II
Hello,
The highlight video from our second ‘Blendologie’ show is now available below. My guest was no other than our Master Blender himself, Brian Kinsman, who as well as answering questions from our viewers and talking about his role, led a particularly educational live blending session.
As with the first event , the video is in French…(please click on the link to read the remainder of the article)…
Kind regards,
Ludo
Fathers Day Shopping Is Solved!
This year, yet another tie or polo shirt is not the answer. Pick up a bottle of Virginia Highland Malt for your dad, husband, son and brother. Dad, we’re providing this helpful photo for you to print out and leave lying round the house. Take charge of your future! And, finally, have a wonderful Fathers Day!
GlenDronach Single Cask 5347 UK Exclusive
70cl / 55.1% Vol
A UK exclusive from GlenDronach distillery. Single cask 3547 was distilled in 1994 and matured in a Pedro Ximinez sherry puncheon for 18 years.
Bottled in 2013 with only 607 bottles filled.
Single casks from GlenDronach distillery don’t tend to hang around for long, so if you’re a fan get one while you can… Especially at this price!
Official Tasting Notes:
Appearance: Polished cherry wood.
Nose: Creamy chocolate rum-raisins are perfectly spiced by a hint of sweet chilli. A gentle apple and barley note rounds off the nose.
Palate: Beautifully sweet peppery spices roll to chocolate fudge cake and waves of vanilla pod, ending in a delicate mint and stewed barley finish.
RRP – £83.99
Abbey Whisky – £75.00 (£62.50 ex vat)
Click here to buy GlenDronach Single Cask 5347 UK Exclusive
A message from our friends at Scotch Whisky Auctions;
“Hi folks. We are filling up fast for the next auction and will close it for bottles on Wednesday, June 12.
Kind regards from Glasgow.
The SWATeam”
Visit them at www.scotchwhiskyauctions.com
The Balvenie Whisky Fete and Tun 1401 Batch 8
It’s the time of year when the folks at The Balvenie, invigorated by the pale globe in the sky shining its limp light through Scottish clouds, celebrate their craft laden approach to whisky making with The Masters of Craft. It’s … Continue reading >>
The Edinburgh Whisky Stramash, May 2013. Scotland.
Angels whisky club flew in a few angels for this event, held at the Surgeons Halls Edinburgh.
A very good show with many drams to try, Angels were lucky enough to be given free tickets for the event, we arrived 1pm on Sunday 26 May; Paul, Lizzie and Kevin, eager for a dram of 12.
A wee bit early, so we had a brief drink in the Monkey Drum pub just around the corner. Great wee place.
Upon entry we hit the first room; Scotch Malt Whisky Society room, had a dram or two here, moved on to the main room, a pleasant find; Stewart from Ben Riach! Paul hasnee seen him for ages, so it was good to have a laugh and share handshakes! Of course we all just HAD to try a BenRich and GlenDronach! as usual, all went down well. More friends dotted about, Glen Moray had a great wee bottle, only just available, fits into handbags and with a push, a sporran. Peated spirit 60.6% in a wee bottle, as shown in our photo, I need a few of these!
Another pal, big Jan Beckers, once again providing the giant Big Peat! Fred was also there with some grand bottles, we did try a few, all for research you understand. Totally new, never met before, a young man, Michael D’Souza, master distiller from India with the Paul John distillery bottles, very interesting drams (2), liked them a lot, this will soon be available and I urge you to try them. Tomatin drams never fail to satisfy me, today was no different, Alistair Mutch was presenting the drams, good man, lives near us around Perth. By this time, many drams had sank in, so we took a break, Liz and Kevin were enjoying the event and participating, (afraid Paul participated more though!) Something different; Ola Dubh from the Harvieston Brewery, great ale and strong!
Back to the whisky; we sampled a few more, a good afternoon, Paul researched too much, Liz and Kev made sure he was ok, we disappeared back to the Dome for a champagne cocktail, where Jill met up with us. Needless to say, Paul never made the dinner afterwards!
Looking forward to the 2014 stramash, couldn’t make any sense of the barber though!
Attended by Paul, Lizzie and Kevin, all Perth Angels.
Angels whisky club, free membership, members worldwide.
Angels Whisky Club;
….our new series of whisky tasting… Angels look into …
Our Angels fly into several whiskies to sample them, to share them and to let us know what they thought of each tasting.
Angels look into … The Wild Geese Rare Irish Whiskey Untamed 43% 70cl. Citrus fruit, goose berry (mind NOT geese) and flowery notes. It had a rich malty taste and oak, a long finish. The Wild Geese Rare Irish Whiskey is perfect straight also for a whiskey cocktail. This bottle was presented to us for sampling with our friends from Finland, we now have approximately 1/2 inch remaining in the bottle! By the time you read this, it will be empty. The “Geese” have several releases, we have tried them all – in the name of research you understand. By the time we gave them all a good sup, we were left with “wild angels”!
Angels look into … Ledaig single malt Scotch Whisky – produced at Tobermory Distillery, name comes from the original name for the area, Ledaig (Led-chig), from the Gaelic, meaning ‘safe haven’. Unlike its brother Tobermory, it is distilled from peated malted barley, burning peat is used to dry the barley in a kiln, leading to a single malt with a distinctive peaty, smoky taste, light and well-balanced, notes of cut grass and straw, barley sugar, cereals and butter. The palate is medium-bodied with a richness. The finish is long. The night was long, the bottle is under half full! How many times have we taken tours to Mull? How many times have we gone there – “just because”? answer to both; umpteen. We are having tours designed right now for 2014 “gathering of the drams”, small group visits that include Mull and Oban, with whisky (obviously) and fresh seafood, local pubs, locals and great beds! You will need them after this trip.
Angels look into … Glen Breton 10 year old single malt, Canada’s only single malt – to date I think there are more on the way. It has won awards, it is near the upper end of the market for this age. I acquired my bottle from a great Canadian pipeband, we helped here in Scotland for the world pipebands championships, as a thanks, they brought me this gem. What it is like; banana, honey, flowery, soap and grass. Sharp and long finish, with cereal notes. Strange though, recently at the Victoria whisky fest on Vancouver Island, Liz and Paul attended the Canadian whisky awards, we never saw this! maybe it was there, we didnee see it. At 43% this ten year old was good, but, wouldn’t say it’s the best I’ve had lately, a good dram to start off the night methinks. Glen Breton is a Gaelic speaking area of Canada, typically Scottish, maybe that’s why I like this?
Angels look into … Clynelish 1995 – 16 Year Old, Sherry Butt #12797 Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 70cl / 58.3% A Signatory (bought at Edradour) product. This 1995 Clynelish bottled at “Cask Strength” by Signatory. After being matured in a Sherry Butt and aged for 16 years, this single cask whisky was bottled in January 2012 when we found it! Bottle 399/629 a fantastic dram this one. Signatory Vintage are an independent bottler founded by Andrew Symington. The name was comes from the intention to find a person to sign the labels for bottles drawn from a single cask. To add proof of authenticity to their cask strength bottlings, Signatory always include cask numbers, date of distillation, date of bottling and number of bottles produced, can you also taste salt? Water makes it sweeter, brings out fruit and a hint of lime, then there’s the sherry; still much of a Clynelish. Strangely, I still have lots of this remaining, maybe coz I havnee shared it with anyone, maybe coz it’s no as good as some others I have, or maybe its just been hidden at the back!
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As a special treat, we are offering dads our personalised whisky for the same price as our 10 Year Old, making a bottle just £33.49 (usual price £38.49). However for members of the Family, we are offering an additional 10% discount making a bottle just £30.14. The offer ends June 16th, so don’t delay – the last order for delivery before Father’s Day is June 10th.
Whisky Ramblings Via Video #51
Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, was able to secure his bottle of the much coveted Ardbog, this year’s release for Ardbeg Day. This is a peaty Ileach that matured for 10 years in American White Oak and Manzanilla sherry casks. And to be honest…it’s a good one!
