The Malt Maniacs have updated their Monitor; a list of scores from over 12,107 whiskies for a total of 37,805 individual scores.
You can view this great resource at http://www.whiskyfun.com/MaltManiacsMonitor.pdf and visit the Malt Maniacs at http://www.maltmaniacs.org/ or http://www.maltmadness.com/ and http://www.whiskyfun.com/
EPISODE 203: JUNE 7, 2009
Harlen Wheatley of Buffalo Trace usually comes out with something unusual every summer when he unleashes his latest Experimental Collection releases on the world. This year, he’s releasing one of the distillery’s older experiments — bourbon aged in two different types of oak casks for 15 years. One batch was aged in coarse-grained oak from fast-growth forests, and the other was aged in fine-grain oak from slow-growth forests. He’ll tell us what he found in this week’s episode.
Visit http://www.whiskycast.com/ to listen to Episode 203 today.
Port Ellen 1983 ‘The Golden Cask’ (a closed distillery)
Kilkerran ‘Work in Progress’ (a very new distillery)
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A 46% Peated Amrut Indian Single Malt has been introduced into the Alberta market as an alternative to the Amrut Cask Strength Peated Single malt. It will be available at Willow Park, Highlander, Kensington Wine Market, Crowfoot Liquor and Skyway.
A. Dewar Rattray is working on their Christmas bottling list for Canada and are currently exam several samples. Watch this space for advance warning of new arrivals!
Also from A. Dewar Rattray is an exclusive barrel of 1967 Tamdhu that be will be arriving in Alberta for the Co-Op Supermarket Chain within the next few weeks. There are only 78 bottles from this barrel and it is described as being quite amazing considering the age.
And if you would like to have your very own mature cask bottled with a unique label then A.Dewar Rattray have various single malts available for you under their Exclusive Cask Program.
A. Dewar Rattray have samples from the following distilleries; Strathmill 1989, Auchentoshan 1991, Glenrothes 1990, Cragganmore 1997, Laphroaig 1996, Aberfeldy 1994, Coleburn (Closed) 1983, Pulteney 1982, Inchgower 1974, Glen Mhor 1982 and Tomatin 1988.
For further information on either Amrut or A. Dewar Rattray please contact Jonathan Bray of Purple Valley Imports at (403) 862 3577 or jonathan@purplevalleyimports.com
For further information on A. Dewar Rattray please visit them at http://www.adrattray.com/
Please visit http://www.amrutwhisky.co.uk/ or http://www.amrutwhisky.com/index.asp for further information on the Amrut Distillery.
June 4: Bourbon & American Whiskey Class, Brandy Library, New York City
June 6-7: Wild West Whisky Fest, Kortrijk, Belgium
June 6-7: Whisky Live at the Texas Highland Games & Scottish Festival, Arlington, Texas
June 8: Cooley Distillery Tasting, Milroy’s of Soho, London
June 9: Introduction to Scotch, Brandy Library, New York City
June 12: Precious & Rare Scotch Class, Brandy Library, New York City
June 13: Kentucky Bourbon Festival Sampler, Frankfort, Kentucky
June 20: Woodford Reserve Bourbon Academy, Versailles, Kentucky
June 24: The Whisky Guild Whisky Dinner Cruise, Washington, DC
June 24: Precious & Rare Scotch Class, Brandy Library, New York City
June 26: Introduction to Scotch, Brandy Library, New York City
July 8-12: Tales of the Cocktail, New Orleans, Louisiana
July 11-25: Classic Malts Cruise, Scotland
August 3-5: Glenlivet Whisky School, Glenlivet Distillery, Ballindalloch, Scotland
August 31-September 6: Whisky Live, Sydney, Australia
September 4-6: Maltstock, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
September 6-7: Whisky Live at the San Francisco Highland Games, Pleasanton, CA
September 10: The Whisky Guild Whisky Dinner Cruise, New York City
September 12: Whisky Live, Glasgow, Scotland (NOTE DATE CHANGE)
September 15-20: Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Bardstown, Kentucky
September 17: Whisky Live on the Docks, Newport, Rhode Island
September 17-19: Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
September 18-20: Whisky Galore Festival, Isle of Barra, Scotland
September 25-29: Autumn Speyside Whisky Festival, Dufftown, Scotland
September 24-28: Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
September 26-28: Whisky Live, Paris, France
October 5-7: Glenlivet Whisky School, Glenlivet Distillery, Ballindalloch, Scotland
October 15: Whisky Live on the Docks, Annapolis, Maryland
October 16: Malt Advocate’s WhiskyFest, San Francisco
October 20: Whisky Live, Los Angeles, California
October 23: Whisky Live, Toronto, Ontario
October 28: Whisky Live, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
November 7: Whiskies of the World Expo, Washington, DC
November 10: Malt Advocate’s WhiskyFest, New York City
November 12-14: Whisky Live, Cape Town, South Africa (Tentative)
November 13-15: International Whisky Festival/Whisky Live, Leiden, The Netherlands
January 22-24, 2010: Victoria Whisky Festival, Victoria, British Columbia
April 24, 2010: Spirit of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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Published Date: 31 May 2009
By William Lyons
THE new chief executive of Whyte & Mackay has revealed that the Scotch firm has secured a significant slice of the world’s largest whisky market in less than five months.
John Beard, who joined the company in March, said the distiller’s range of whiskies had already notched up a 13 per cent share in India’s single malt whisky sector since they were introduced at the start of the year.
Beard replaced Ashwin Malik, wADVERTISEMENTho has returned to India after helping to build Whyte & Mackay (W&M) following its £595 million acquisition in 2007 by Indian entrepreneur Vijay Mallya and his United Spirits group.
Speaking in his first major interview since taking the helm, Beard said the strategy was to reduce the firm’s dependency on the UK market while growing market share in India and the US. Central to this is a rebranding of its Glayva liqueur in a move that will see it go head to head with rival Drambuie in America. Other W&M products include Whyte and Mackay blended whisky, The Dalmore and Jura malts and vodka brands Vladivar and Pinky.
He said: “The UK has some quite significant issues related to taxation and everyone seems determined to tax the category continuously and therefore we need to look internationally. To date we have been quite dependent on the UK but that dependency is reducing year by year.
“India is a hugely attractive whisky market for the future and we have a route to market through United Spirits which really is quite remarkable. It has 60 per cent of the market, so six out of ten bottles of spirits sold in India come out of our parent company.
“Already we have gained a 13% share of the malt whisky category which in time will be a very, very significant profit opportunity.
“If you compare India to China the interesting comparison is that China is not only about whisky but cognac whereas in India whisky is what consumers drink.”
W&M made pre-tax profits of £25.58m during the 18 months to March 31, 2008, compared with losses of £2.19m in the previous year, according to its last reported results.
This month it entered a “strategic partnership” with Snow Leopard vodka, a Polish-produced luxury brand.
The full article contains 389 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.Page 1 of 1
Last Updated: 30 May 2009 1:33 PM
Source: Scotland On Sunday
Location: Scotland
Related Topics: Scotsman Whisky
It’s hard enough just to keep track of whiskies, but F. Paul Pacult does just that…and rums, tequilas, gins…you name it. Paul names his top spirits of 2009 in the latest edition of the Spirit Journal, and he’ll share some of his favorites in this episode. In the news, Campari closes on the purchase of Wild Turkey, Isle of Jura goes elemental, Buffalo Trace gets experimental, and the results of Kilchoman’s charity auction are astronomical…
Visit http://whiskycast.com/ to listen to Episode 202…..
The Balvenie’s coppersmith Dennis McBain comments on his job and an article about the Balvenie ball, a new limited edition and more all to be found by visiting Ware House 24 at http://www.thebalvenie.com/en-gb/home.php
Father’s Day Promotion!
Gift giving is a nice way to make others feel good and if we’re honest, it makes the gift-giver feel pretty good, too. So, we would like to give you a gift.
For every bottle of Compass Box whisky purchased at our online shop through 21 June 2009, we will include a complimentary 5cl sample of another Compass Box whisky*.
So, why not give your Dad a bottle of whisky for Father’s Day? With any luck he’ll even share some of it with you!
Click here to buy a bottle today. http://compassbox.specialitydrinks.com/
*Sample will be Asyla, Oak Cross or Peat Monster, to be chosen by Compass Box in a complimentary style to that purchased.
World Whisky Awards 2009
We are proud to announce that two of our whiskies have taken top accolades at the recent 2009 World Whisky Awards.
For the 2nd year in a row, Hedonism has been awarded WORLD’S BEST GRAIN WHISKY (batch H30MMVIII). And The Peat Monster received WORLD’S BEST SCOTCH VATTED MALT.
Both whiskies were chosen among over 150 different whiskies by the international team of sixteen judges. We would like to thank all the judges for recognising our whiskies, and hope you, our most critical judges, will agree with their results.
Contact Information
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Some new bottlings that have come available today;
Smokehead Extra Black 18yo
Arran Pomerol Cask
Arran Bourbon Cask
Tomintoul 14yo
Bruichladdich WMDII Yellow Submarine
Old Pulteney 1970
Laphroaig 18yo
Caol Ila Cask Strength
Visit https://www.lfw.co.uk/ to secure yours today!
