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Introducing Old Particular
Introducing the all new Douglas Laing’s Old Particular range of single cask Scotch whiskies.
‘Particularly’ sought after range of individually selected Malts from all over Scotland – each bottled according to the founders’ philosophy of topmost quality.
Port Ellen 31 Year Old 1982 (51.5%)
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal Opens New Prestige Hall Bottling Facility at Chivas Brothers in Paisley
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal officially opened a brand new bottling hall designed to cater for today’s luxury Scotch whisky and gin consumers during a visit to Renfrewshire.
The Prestige Hall was completed last year as part of an annual £40m investment in operations by Chivas Brothers, the Scotch whisky and premium gin business of Pernod Ricard. It was created to facilitate the hand-packaging of the company’s highest-value products, including those in the Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, The Glenlivet, Beefeater and Ballantine’s ranges, as well as some limited edition single malts.
The process in the Prestige Hall is much more hand-crafted, quiet and bespoke than in a typical bottling hall, drawing on the skills of specially-selected employees to ensure the highest possible standards to meet the specification expected by the expanding group of luxury whisky and gin consumers around the world.
During the visit, Laurent Lacassagne, Chairman and CEO of Chivas Brothers, and Alister McIntosh, Manufacturing Director, invited Her Royal Highness to tour the North and Prestige bottling halls to meet key employees and unveil a commemorative plaque.
While on the visit, Her Royal Highness was able to witness the company’s full range of bottling facilities from high-speed, high-volume bottling lines to the detailed processes carried out by hand for the high-value expressions packaged in the new Prestige Hall. Employees presented to Her Royal Highness included current and former apprentices, family members who work together on the site and employees who have long service exceeding 20 years.
Speaking at the event, Mr Lacassagne said: “It was an incredible honour to receive this visit by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, and one that our employees will remember for years to come. We are very proud of our state-of-the-art bottling facilities here in Paisley, and the teams that run them, so it was a pleasure to be able to present these to such a prestigious guest.
“The Prestige Hall is a prime example of how we have evolved our business to ensure it is clearly aligned for the future. The long term prospects for premium Scotch whisky and gin remain very good and this investment will continue to help us appeal to discerning consumers all over the world with the very highest quality products.”
The completion of the Prestige Hall is part of a sustained programme of investment by Chivas Brothers in its operations. Other recent major investments have included the re-opening of its Glen Keith distillery in June this year, completing a 25% expansion in the company’s malt distillation capacity, and the £10 million expansion of The Glenlivet Distillery in 2010 – increasing capacity there by 75%. The company is also building a new distillery at Carron on the River Spey, to be completed in 2015.
Notes:
Chivas Brothers is the Scotch whisky and premium gin business of Pernod Ricard – the world’s co-leader in wine and spirits. Chivas Brothers is the global leader in luxury Scotch whisky and premium gin. Its portfolio includes Chivas Regal, Ballantine’s, Beefeater Gin, The Glenlivet, Royal Salute, Aberlour, Plymouth Gin, Longmorn, Scapa, 100 Pipers, Clan Campbell, Something Special and Passport.
In July 2010 Chivas Brothers launched The Age Matters campaign to help consumers understand the importance of Scotch whisky age statements.
New edition of Malt Whisky Yearbook
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* The Distillery Section completely revised with all the latest news
* The chapter on Distilleries Around the Globe now bigger than ever
* New exciting articles by distinguished writerssuch as Charles MacLean, Ian Buxton, Gavin D Smith, Dominic Roskrow, Neil Ridley, Jonny McCormick and Hans Offringa
* Completely new Japanese chapter by Nicholas Coldicott
* More than 250 tasting notes, including Japanese malts and independent bottlings
* Learn about some of the world´s biggest blended whiskies and the malts that contribute to the success
* Whisky Around the World – new feature with whisky profiles around the globe inviting you to their country
* Expanded section on Independent Bottlers
* A listing of more than 150 of the world´s greatest whisky shops
* The Whisky Year That Was – the most comprehensive summary you´ll find of the news and trends in the
industry
* All the latest info on bottlings, web sites, books as well as the latest statistics and figures
* More than 500 colour photos
All in all – the most updated whisky book on the market!
Classic Book Reviews: Whisky by Aeneas MacDonald
CÚ BÓCAN available at A Whisky Galore
Cú Bócan means ‘Ghost dog’ in Gaelic, and commemorates the fact that the last Wolf in Scotland was killed near the Tomatin Distillery
Tomatin Cu Bocan Tasting Notes:
Aroma – Coconuts and cream with some botanic notes, parsley and coriander. The smoke emerges after a minute followed by a mix of lime, grapefruit and tangerines with rich almond and aniseed.
Palate – Initially feather light, followed by a honeyed smoke. The rich spice of cloves, cinnamon and star anise create an enigmatic elegance.
Finish – Light with a hint of sweet smoke.
Cask types – Virgin oak, Bourbon & Sherry Casks.
Available now at £39.00 from a Whisky Galore
We’re delighted to announce the launch of our two Limited Edition Great King Street Experimental Batch whiskies:
TR-06 and 00-V4.
Since the creation of the Artist’s Blend in 2011 we’ve been thinking about the second permanent whisky in the Great King Street range. Two styles have emerged as the leading contenders – one smoky the other lightly sherried – and so we have released a limited edition, one-off Experimental Batch of each style to see what you think!
The two GKS Experimental Batches are available to buy now from our UK-based web shop and it will arrive in the coming days and weeks at your favourite whisky retailer across the UK, Europe, South Africa, certain parts of Canada and Asia. As they are packaged in a 50cl format they will sadly not be available in the United States (sorry).
Only 3,805 bottles have been produced of the smoky TR-06 Batch and 3,439 bottles of the sherried 00-V4 Batch.
So, taste, savour, mix if you like; above all, share & enjoy them with your friends. Then simply click here to let us know which Experimental Batch you prefer and why.
Batch #00-V4 (Orange)
Batch #TR-06 (Blue)
Happy experimenting
Tullamore Distillery is reborn
Ernie – Ernst J. Scheiner, The Gateway to Distilleries at www.whisky-distilleries.net
William Grant & Sons Ltd., announced on March 28th, 2012 it will invest in a new pot still whiskey and malt whiskey distillery in Tullamore, bringing whiskey production back to the town for the first time since the original distillery closed in 1954. In 2010 they aquired the brand Tullamore D.E.W. from the Irish drinks maker C&C Group plc – Frangelico and Irish Mist – for €300 million. Tullamore D.E.W. was largely produced by Midleton Distilleries in Co. Cork, Tullamore Malt came from Cooley Distillery in Co. Louth.
Offaly Council gave green light for the planners on December 18th, 2012. The new Tullamore distillery will be built at Ballard and Clonminch in Tullamore‘s north. Next to the distillery there will also be a new visitor centre with a restaurant.
See official briefing document of the proposed distillery.
New Start
On September 12th, 2013 the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney ‘turned the sod’ on the new Tullamore distillery.
Production will start in autumn 2014 and will bring back distilling to Tullamore after the original distillery had to close in 1954. About €35 million will be invested in the new state-of-the art distillery which will be situated on a 58 acre site at Clonmich on the outskirts of Tullamore. The grain and pot still whiskey distillery will emply about 25 people.
By breaking a ceremonial cask full of Tullamore whiskey with William Grant & Sons Global CEO Stella David the construction phase of the new grain and malt distillery started. The reborn Tullamore distillery will produce about 1.84 million litres of alcohol or 1.5 million nine-liter-cases annually when it is finished. In 2014 there will be two warehouses to hold 55,000 casks. Altogether there will 26 palletized warehouses and three dunnage warehouses. The water is piped for 14km to the production site.
The Scottish firm William Grant & Sons employs more than 90 people in Ireland, in Dublin, Tullamore and in Clonmel at its bottling plant.
Facts
Tullamore D.E.W. has doubled its worldwide sales to almost 850.000 nine-liter-cases since 2005. It is the world‘s second largest Irish whiskey brand (behind John Jameson) with enormous growing figures by over 20% anually. It is very popular in Germany, Sweden and the Czech Republic but will also grow in the four big markets U.S.A., France, Britain and Ireland where Tullamore whiskey is under-represented.
In Germany it is the No. 1 among the Irish whiskeys with a market share of 65.3%.
The refurbished Tullamore Visitor Centre near the Grand Canal attracts about 40.000 visitors each year.
Information:
www.tullamoredew.com
www.williamgrant.com
www.whisky-distilleries.net
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Brian Prewitt Named Master Distiller at A. Smith Bowman Distillery
Fredericksburg, VA. (Sept. 2013) – Brian Prewitt has been named Master Distiller at A. Smith Bowman Distillery. A native of Colorado, Prewitt has nearly 15 years of brewing and distilling experience.
Prewitt’s interest in the beverage industry was peaked when he landed a job at the New Belgium Brewing Company while attending Colorado State University obtaining his bachelor’s degree in food science.
Upon graduation, Prewitt further honed his interest for brewing and distilling by completing the Master Brewers Program at University of California, Davis. From there, he joined The Great Divide Brewing Company in Denver, Colo., eventually becoming its brewer.
When Prewitt saw an opportunity to try his hand at distilling spirits instead of beer, he jumped at the chance to join E&J Distilleries in Modesto, Calif. and was eventually named Senior Distiller. It was at E&J that Prewitt was able to train under two Master Distillers with a combined experience of more than 70 years in the art of distillation, learning about raw material selection, fermentation, distillation, and maturation.
Prewitt is excited to carry on the Bowman family tradition of award-winning products while introducing some new offerings as well. “This is my dream job. To be able to work with the high quality spirits that are in the Bowman line already, plus have the freedom to try my hand at some experiments, well, I’m just ecstatic,” said Prewitt.
Prewitt replaces former A. Smith Bowman Master Distiller Truman Cox, who passed away unexpectedly earlier this year. Prewitt lives in Fredericksburg with his wife and three children.
About A. Smith Bowman
A. Smith Bowman’s distilling roots date back to the years before Prohibition when the Bowman family had a granary and dairy farm in Sunset Hills, Virginia. They used excess grain from the family estate to distill spirits. In 1934, after the Repeal of Prohibition, Abram Smith Bowman and his sons continued the family tradition and built a more modern distillery in Fairfax County, Virginia called Sunset Hills Farm. In response to the rapid rise of taxes in Northern Virginia, the Distillery was moved in 1988 and is now nestled in Spotsylvania County near the city of Fredericksburg, 60 miles away from the original location.
As a small and privately owned company, A. Smith Bowman Distillery continues the time-honored traditions on which it was founded. Considered a micro-distillery by today’s standards, A. Smith Bowman produces an assortment of hand-crafted spirits distilled from only the finest natural ingredients and using the latest technology. This micro-distillery focuses on the production of premium spirits honoring the legacy of Virginia’s first settlers. For more information on A. Smith Bowman, please visit http://www.asmithbowman.com/.
Loch Fyne Whiskies Stocks Bruichladdich Octomore 6.1 Scottish Barley
Bruichladdich Octomore 6.1 Scottish Barley 57% abv
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