BURNS NIGHT 2020 AT MILROYS

Friday 24th January 2020 at Milroys Soho & Milroys Spitalfields

Burns Night Celebrations at Milroys with Crabbie Whisky (Spitalfields) & Port Askaig (Soho) on 24th January 2020.
There will be plenty of whisky (as part of your ticket price), haggis, poetry, music and laughter in honour of Scotlands favourite poet !
£20.00
6.30PM

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Gie him strong drink until he wink,
That’s sinking in despair;
An’ liquor guid to fire his bluid,
That’s prest wi’ grief and care:
There let him bouse, an’ deep carouse,
Wi’ bumpers flowing o’er,
Till he forgets his loves or debts,
An’ minds his griefs no more.

Bruichladdich 14 Year Old 2003 Single Cask

Brand New UK Exclusive Release

The latest single cask release from Islay. Matured in bourbon and Calvados casks and bottled at a huge 60.8%. Secure yours now! Bruichladdich 14 Year Old 2003 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whisky. Single Calvados cask #10/179-1 bottled December 2018 for the United Kingdom market. 438 bottles. MAXIMUM 2 BOTTLES PER CUSTOMER.

Bruichladdich Distillery was established in 1881 by the Harvey family of distillers based in Glasgow. Situated on the Rhinns peninsular on the island of Islay close and close to the sandy bays of Loch Indaal. Re-opened in 2001 with much of the original Victorian equipment restored to working order. The first release of Bruichladdich’s new whiskey was the highly acclaimed PC5, the first release in the limited Port Charlotte range. Also producing very highly peated Octamore, Organic using Islay grown barley, and triple and quadruple distilled single malt and single cask releases. Bruichladdich distillery participates in Feis Ile, the annual Islay Whisky Festival.

Buy – Bruichladdich 14 Year Old 2003 – £159.22

New Riff “Single Barrel” Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $49.99 View

High West “American Prairie” K&L Exclusive Single Barrel Armagnac Finish Cask Strength Bourbon Whiskey (750ml) $54.99 View

Burns Night at the The Savoy’s Beaufort Bar

Enjoy an evening of glamour and opulence at The Savoy’s Beaufort Bar this Burns Night. Their current Interpreted Magic menu delves into the fabled history, dark drama and timeless romance embedded in the mysterious world of magic and boasts a refined signature offering, including a well-chosen, in-depth whisky selection. The bar’s enhanced roster of whiskies focuses on rare, valuable bottles and world whiskies, which are all found in the third section in the menu, entitled ‘The Prestige’. This segment is shaded with black and represents the end of the evening or, in this case, the finale. Expanding its representation of world whiskies, and offering small, rare batches, the whiskies at the Beaufort Bar range in style, age, region and complexity, pleasing both malt connoisseurs and curious neophytes. Lesser-known world whiskies to try in the Beaufort Bar, as recommended by Elon Soddu, Head Bartender of Beaufort Bar.

Kavalan Concertmaster:”Full of flavour and attitude, with a port cask finish affording a rich and decadent lingering smoothness”
Karnog Sauternes Cask: “A peated French single malt finished in sauternes casks with an amazing complexity delivered by competing sweetness and smoke”.
Starward 10th Anniversary: “Australian single malt finished in a variety of Australian wine casks, this one weighs in at 52% abv but you’d never know it, it’s stunningly smooth”

To make a reservation please call 020 7420 2111 or email savoy@fairmonth.com

https://www.thesavoylondon.com/restaurant/beaufort-bar/

Monkey Shoulder X Skylight Rooftop – Burns Night Celebration 

On Saturday 25th January, Monkey Shoulder whisky will be taking over London’s most imaginative rooftop destination, Skylight at Tobacco Dock for one of London’s biggest Burns Night celebrations. In honour of the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, the rooftop will undergo a boozy makeover by Monkey Shoulder, bringing with them signature whisky tipples a-plenty. Entertainment, aside from the rooftop ice rink, will come from traditional Scottish bag-pipers, a highland dance performance, special poems and surprise tasting opportunities throughout the night. Expect music, singing, dancing and poems.

With a wide array of seating to choose from, guests will be able to cosy up under the heated pergola or grab a table or booth on the lower level. Skylight’s rooftop igloos will also be available to book as well as cosy huts – the perfect place to pull up a blanket and sip on hot-toddies to warm the cockles. Street food will also be available to purchase.

Saturday 25th January

5pm – 11pm

£8 – £16 Including welcome drink

Ice skating is not included in the entry ticket but can be purchased at the venue for £12 for 45 minutes.

Tickets: https://skylight.designmynight.com/5dc9547eba848a4fb849d9f6/burns-night-skylight-winter-closing-party-1

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 288: Glengoyne 12 Year Old 2005 Single Cask for The Netherlands

Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a signle sherry cask of Glengoyne. For the 100th jubilee of the Dutch importer De Monnik Dranken, the distillery manager Robbie Hughes selected this cask from 2015. It was presented a little over a year ago, but only now reached Mark’s neck of the woods thanks to his Dutch buddy Manny.

https://youtu.be/s7t79jpNLEs

ralfy.com finds a new version of Laphroaig.

https://youtu.be/mp_a8AZ4Dns

A lot can happen in a year …   Andrew Nelstrop, Managing Director 
The English Whisky Co

Once again I find myself being asked to write a few lines because we have come to the end of the year.  It does not seem 12 months since I last did this. I am not sure what has caused time to speed up – is it my never ending age increase or is it having young children at school with terms going by in a daze?

English whisky as a global category continues to grow with new export markets found and the word is quietly spread that whisky doesn’t have to be Scottish.  As the founding company behind this growth in English whisky we find it spectacular how many other distilleries are being built or coming online to join us. Yes it is a bit more competition but at the same time it is a lot more people banging the drum around the world and ultimately this helps awareness sink in. I am very fortunate to be leading the original English Whisky Company and my life is made easier by the fact that our team continue to make the very finest single malt and that we have a good stock of aged whiskies maturing in our bonds. One of the perks of owning the oldest whisky distillery is I get to try the oldest English whiskies before you and I can tell you the 12year old we are looking at releasing next year is amazing!

For those of you that haven’t visited the distillery for a year or two; we now have a very smart bistro that has proved to be a big hit, with our chefs knocking up some quality grub – it is well worth a visit. Now that we have somewhere lovely for you to relax and spend a bit of time, we have made the hard decision to reduce the tours to 4 a day. In the past we really couldn’t entertain visitors for an hour while they waited for a tour but the new facilities are lovely, so hopefully you will arrive early enough for a drink and maybe a nibble before your tour.

2019 has been a stressful year and it has nothing to do with making or selling whisky but everything to do with computers; which brings me back to my ever increasing age! We decided to implement a new website and whilst the website makers are incredibly helpful – I have never known a job so complicated or time consuming. The idea is that it makes your shopping experience an easy delight and looks smart as well. My misled belief was that computers should be able to do this easily – how wrong was I. In my aged wisdom I palmed this job off to Katy who is noticeably younger and therefore seems less miffed when a computer can’t carry out basic mathematics correctly. How many of you still have your Casio calculator? I do and it is far more accurate than a wrongly programmed computer.. Anyway months on and we finally launched the new site on Black Friday because we like a challenge. I have a feeling that there will be tweaks going on for many more months but I am delighted with the results so far, the new site is a great improvement on our old version. If you find  a glitch please do email or phone us  – there will be a glitch or two hiding somewhere.

My final comments are a request for you all. We know where our whisky is sold but we rarely know where it is not. If you have a lovely wine shop / great bar / hotel near you that doesn’t stock our goods please do let us know so that we can do our best to persuade the proprietor to stock a few of our products. Any new accounts gained this way and the informer gets a bottle of The English Original on me!

Once again – Merry Christmas

Andrew Nelstrop