June 24th, 2013
The Vancouver and Victoria July Outturn Tastings
In July we raise a dram to Shakespeare and find ourselves in a Victorian garden in Las Vegas. Curious as always!
Space is limited so sign up early to ensure you can enjoy our latest batch of single cask beauties!
In Vancouver please join us on
Monday, July 8th at 6:45pm
Edgemont Fine Wines, Spirits & Ales
3020 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver
Click here to register: http://ow.ly/m5fWx
For more information call 604-984-9463
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In Victoria please join us on
Friday, July 5th at 6:30pm
The Strath Ale, Wine & Spirit Merchants
919 Douglas Street, Victoria
To register please call 250-370-9463
or email whisky@strathconahotel.com
(You may read a review of the June Outturn Tasting here )
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada
104-1240 Kensington Road NW, Suite 160
Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 3P7
Email – curious@smws.ca
June 24th, 2013
In Stock Now at Mora’s Fine Wine & Spirits (E. Setauket, New York)
Springbank 1996 16 Year Old Amontillado Sherry Butt Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch – $169.99
6 Bottles available
Longrow 11 Year Old Rundlets & Kilderkins Single Malt Scotch – $114.99
6 Bottles available
Talisker 18 Year Old Single Malt Scotch – $118.99
4 bottles available
Ardbeg Ardbog Single Malt Scotch – $103.99
11 bottles available
Mora’s Fine Wine & Spirits
www.moraswines.com
631-941-4458 sev.clemens@moraswines.com
June 24th, 2013
ISLAY DELIGHTS…
Limited releases available while stocks last
For those Islay freaks out there who thought that they’d missed out, you may not be too late at all. We can deliver WORLDWIDE…. please contact us directly if you are unable to make your purchase through our shopping cart…
ARDBEG ARDBOG 52.1%£75
What can we say – this whisky speaks for itself!
BRUICHLADDICH ANCIEN REGIME 46%£70
Distilled in 1998 by the previous regime as a demonstration to potential buyers that the distillery was in working order.
BRUICHLADDICH RENAISSANCE 46%£70
Distilled in 2001 by Jim McEwan to mark the new ownership and the rebirth of the distillery. The rest as they say is history
T.B.Watson Ltd.
11/17 English Street
Dumfries, Scotland DG1 2BU
United Kingdom
June 24th, 2013
Bordeaux, June 17, 2013 – Sales of niche whiskies are growing because consumers in many markets are looking for different tastes that set their chosen whiskies apart from universal brands. Faster growth is a requirement to ensure niche products do not miss the current upward sales trend for whisky overall. Markets emerging as prime target areas are Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and the USA.
However, gaining distribution for niche brands is often complicated in some markets by the agreements potential worthwhile distributors have with major brands. Such limitations slow down the process of broadening distribution.
Says Richard Lombard- Chibnall, Sales Director of Lombard Brands: “For smaller companies like us Vinexpo offers an ideal solution. We cannot visit all the markets in which we can see growth opportunities, it would simply take too long. Vinexpo is the recognized marketplace of the drinks world. The world comes to Vinexpo and therefore we benefit from that traffic. Already within the first 2 hours or so of opening our stand we have had 30 enquiries. On past experience this is likely to reach about 200 by the end of the exhibition and we would be well pleased with that result”.
Start up Whisky Legends opened for business this year with the unique offer of re-creating famous whisky blends of years gone by. Potential distributors are attracted by the chance to obtain whiskies no longer available. Through Whisky Legends, who buy casks of aged whiskies from other distillers, unique bottlings can be obtained to satisfy a growing demand by consumers for something different. Comments Scott Watson, Founder: “In the first 2 hours of opening our stand the company made 20 new business appointments which bodes well for the rest of the week. There is quite definitely a growing consumer demand for niche brands and our speciality is to recreate whisky legends. This is our first Vinexpo and it looks like giving us access to a number of potential business partners”.
Angus Dundee Distillers are a regular Vinexpo exhibitor with many customers who expect to see them at the show. Apart from maintaining a presence in the niche sector it does bring potential new distributors to the company’s attention. Says Jimmy Robertson, Regional Sales Manager: “Even though we are already in 80 markets there is always room for growth. We are particularly interested in expanding our presence in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Asia is also a huge market in which we seek broader representation”.
The common thread linking the small or niche whisky producers is that Vinexpo is a marketplace at which serious players in the industry must either have a presence or attend. To have so many importers and distributors coming to Bordeaux provides opportunities for niche marketers to meet many of them and develop business to mutual benefit. It is the preferred route rather than the time needed to travel the world. It is why the smaller whisky companies come back to each Vinexpo”.
June 23rd, 2013
Entertaining and humorous conversation with Master Distiller Mike Nicolson and Barry Dunner as Mike recalls informative and comical tales and anecdotes from his past postings at some of finest Scotland’s Scotch Whisky distilleries.
THE VIDEO
June 23rd, 2013
An informative and humorous conversation between Master Distillery Mike Nicolson and Whisky enthusiast Barry Dunner discussing the origins of blended Scotch Whiskies. Johnnie Walker Double Black etc.
THE VIDEO
June 23rd, 2013
Master Distiller Mike Nicolson and Barry Dunner have an entertaining and humorous conversation discussing scotch malt whisky – “drinking and occasion”
THE VIDEO
June 23rd, 2013
Master Distiller Mike Nicolson addresses the Malt Whisky/Salt issue, in a user friendly and humorous style.
THE VIDEO
June 22nd, 2013
July 2013 will see the release of a new whisky in to the UK market. Oak Cask Distribution LTD, set up by 2 young entrepreneurs plan to shock the whisky stereotype in the UK and introduce an Australian Single Malt from Tasmania.
Old Hobart distillery is one of the most southern distilleries in the world and is where Overeem Single Malt Whisky is made; I say ‘made’ but this word is far to bish, bash, bosh for head distiller and owner Casey Overeem, a man who is a perfectionist in every sense of the word. You can really taste this with every dram of his fine hand-crafted single malt selection.
Overeem whisky is crafted in Tasmania, a wonderland that is home to the near perfect whisky making conditions, rivalling anywhere in the world. The finest barley, the purest water and temperate climate which helps Overeem whisky mature that bit quicker than most.
Casey has developed 4 different products for his current collection with Blend to be added in 2016:
- Port Cask Matured 43%ABV
- Port Cask Strength 60% ABV
- Sherry Cask Matured 43% ABV
- Sherry Cask Strength 60% ABV
Since coming on to the whisky scene in 2011 the Overeem range has won acclaim from all quarters including Jim Murray and the Malt Whisky Society of Australia (MWSoA) and with just 8,000 bottles being produced each year by this boutique distillery, Overeem is one of the most sought after and exclusive whiskies in the world.
With the introduction of world whiskies ever increasing on the UK market it’s about time horizons are broadened and this fantastic Aussie dram is given the opportunity to pleasure the pallets of the UK’s whisky drinkers.
June 22nd, 2013
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