New blog post; Tasting Caperdonich 17 Year Old Burns Malt
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Skerryvore in Lochranza! 27/02/2013
Skerryvore will come to Arran in April for a concert at the Lochranza Hall. Tickets are £15 plus booking fee, and can be bought online through Arran Events www.arrantickets.com/skerryvore
If you want to find more about Skerryvore, you can check their official website and listen to one of their track! http://skerryvore.com/ This gig is the start of a series of events on the run up to our 18th Birthday celebrations, therefore put your hands up and come celebrate with us!
With Easter fast approaching, not everyone will want to be showered in chocolate. Some people like a gift with a bit more thought put into it, and with a little touch of class. This is where The Famous Grouse online shop comes in.
Our special Easter offers should have you rolling up and logging on. With every purchase of a 70cl bottle of The Naked Grouse (RRP £29.99), we’ll throw in a complimentary Chrystal’s home-made shortbread. And if your whisky of choice is The Glenturret Highland Single Malt 70cl (RRP £34.99), you can nab yourself a complimentary Glencairn Whisky Glass (RRP £6) and The Famous Grouse Truffle Bar (RRP £2).
These excellent offers are just the tip of our online shopping iceberg. Not only will you find the finest whisky (from The Black Grouse Alpha Edition Blended Scotch 70cl at £29.99 to The Snow Grouse Blended Grain 1L at £24.99) you can get hold of all the accessories that you need to enhance your whisky experience such as our fun Wobble Glass (£4) to the stylish Black Grouse Highball (£3.50).
You could also snap up water jugs, bar trays, coasters, keyrings, travel mugs, cufflinks, torches or pens. Why not go the extra mile by purchasing a hat, sweater, jacket or tie just to show everyone that you are a Grouse guy or gal? And this is the place to go for a bottle with your own personalised label.
For all your online shopping requirements, why not click here now: www.thefamousgrouse.com/online-shop
Dates for your diary:
30 – 31 March: Easter Eggstravaganza & Craft Fayre
6 June: treat your dad to a special day out for Father’s Day
11-14 July: as a holder of the Royal Warrant, we will be at Buckingham Palace for the Coronation Festival
12 August: The Famous Grouse’s official birthday may fall on a Monday, but you still get a chance to help us celebrate in style at Glenturret Distillery on Sunday 11 August
See http://blog.thefamousgrouse.com for full info on all our upcoming events.
A trip to The Famous Grouse Experience isn’t complete without taking in a tour and we have added Challenge Your Senses and Behind The Scenes to an already busy tour roster. For more information on our tour range, go to www.thefamousgrouse.com/visit-us
Cheers,
The Famous Grouse Team
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www.ralfy.com takes a trip into the (Irish) mists of time with an antique, but still drinkable stuff with Whiskey Review 349 – Dunvilles VR Irish Whiskey (circa 1930)
Tasting Notes: GlenDronach 1995 PX Cask Exclusive to TWE
Never say we’re not good to you. TWE have teamed up with Glendronach to bring you a very special heavily sherried single cask. Bottled in March 2013, Cask #4682 was distilled on 8th November 1995 and was a Pedro Ximenez sherry … Continue reading >>
Scotch-MaltWhisky.com gives away collectable 1930s and 1940s vintage whisky labels
Scotch-MaltWhisky.com today announced that it is giving away several 1930s and 1940s vintage whisky labels as prizes for their monthly random draw contest. With participation as simple as leaving a name and email address on their website, Scotch-MaltWhisky.com hopes that the contest will encourage whisky consumers to discover and appreciate fine whisky, and join their social community of like-minded enthusiasts.
Scotch-MaltWhisky.com started in 2012 as a website that was devoted to the promotion of fine whisky, and was built and designed to help enthusiasts find their favourite brews and discover new ones. Today, it features over 3000 whisky products ranging from the rare and expensive to the treasured miniature. It also has a growing collection of articles on whisky appreciation, history, and facts about the most sought after bottles.
“We are passionate about helping whisky enthusiasts rediscover their love for fine whisky”, said James Parker, writer for Scotch-MaltWhisky.com. “These vintage whisky labels will be a great addition to any enthusiast’s collection, and we hope that they will ignite the passion in appreciating the history and legacy of fine whisky in our social community.”
With whisky developing an ever growing popularity around the world, James noted that, “whisky appeals to people’s sense of continuity and longing for something of quality.” He added that, “the diaspora of visitors we have to our website is amazing, it cuts across all income groups and geographical regions around the world. The great thing about the whisky industry is that they offer something for everyone. Whisky is a timeless product that we should all be proud of.”
With whisky labels having a vibrant collector’s scene the vintage nature of Scotch-MaltWhisky.com’s labels is likely to draw particular interest. Many of the labels being offered capture a period of huge change within the world represented in their iconography and style. They present a world of exploration and hope while appealing to the timeless nature of whisky.
James adds: “Scotch-MaltWhisky.com is continuously updated with the whiskies we discover and want to share with our fellow enthusiasts. Our goal is to become an authority in whisky with an active social community of people with similar interests.”
The first contest to give away vintage whisky labels is underway and runs through 7 April 2013. To participate, visit the contest web page or Scotch-MaltWhisky.com.
Karuizawa 2012 Cocktail serie of Honshu Single Malt
The Cocktail series is a range of four Karuizawa bottlings exclusively sold by La Maison du Whisky, featuring labels by the Japanese artist Hideyuki Katsumata. He was inspired by the link between single malts and cocktails that apparently exists in … Continue reading →
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Explore Campbeltown
Springbank Distillery now have a tourism and events person, our very own Mairi Paterson. Mairi is presently working on an exciting new project which will we hope benefit all local businesses.
Springbank Distillery, Ardshiel Hotel and the Machrihanish Holiday Park have got together to set up a web page under the name www.explorecampbeltown.com which will create an online directory of all local businesses.
Currently there is no other site offering this type of information and we feel there is a great need to showcase all of the goods and services we have here to encourage people to come to this beautiful part of the world. Our intention is to include each and every business in the area to emphasise exactly what we have to offer as a community. We get between 4,000 and 5,000 visitors to the distillery each year and we are extremely keen for as many of those as possible to spend at least one night in Campbeltown/Kintyre and explore the area in general. At present, a significant number of our visitors are merely “day-trippers” and heading straight from Springbank to the ferries to Islay or Arran, but we would much prefer it if they would spend more time in our area.
They key to http://www.explorecampbeltown.com/ will be in the fact that it is designed to be 100% inclusive – we would like to include every independent shop, every hotel, every visitor attraction, every service, whether you are a hairdresser or a retail outlet, a town centre hotel or a rural campsite, a golf course or a surf school, car hire or bike hire. Most importantly, there will be absolutely no charge to anyone and no business will be given priority over any other. We intend to list each business alphabetically under relevant categories, with a link to your own website, if you have one, where you can then promote your own business to the visitors.
We are happy to pick up the cost involved with setting up, designing and hosting the website as part of our company’s overall commitment to creating a brand to promote the area on a global basis.
We will be printing the www.explorecampbeltown.com web address on every carton of whisky, gin and rum we sell to 42 different countries to help spread the work and we will encourage every local business to either add stickers to their gifts and/or carrier bags or their packaging materials and to add the address and logo to their own websites and stationery which they may use.
All local companies will be treated equally with no single company being favoured over another so that even very small companies have the same opportunities as the larger ones who could perhaps afford to advertise on a bigger scale.
The directory will simply be a well-designed, easy to use website, with a listing for each business including phone number and a link to each business’ website, if they have one. If they do not, Mairi will be on hand to advise them how they can a free, one page site which can be set up with the minimum of effort.
Springbank Distillery hosted an open evening a few weeks ago in the Tasting Room for representatives from local businesses and were overwhelmed with the positive response.
Mairi has been very busy since then, taking registration forms and details of what each business has to offer so that visitors to the town can have a look at the directory and see just what they can look forward to when they come to Campbeltown.
The website is in the process of being set up but to keep up to date with what’s going on login to Facebook where you can go into explorecampbeltown.
SLÁINTE
Janet
for Springbank Society
For the Springbank Society
(Please contact Janet directly to join the Springbank Society society@springbankwhisky.com )
Grant’s in Taiwan
Hi all,
This week I am on a tour of Taiwan, visiting the capital city, Taipei, as well as Taichung and Kaohsiung, which is further south. Trips to Taiwan are usually busy as I reported last year and this one is no different, as you can see from the pictures below. My schedule is full with media…(please click on the link below to read the remainder of the article)…
Kind regards,
Ludo
