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K&L Wine Merchants
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St Columba’s Hospice Live Life Ball raises £400k
October 2012 The St Columba’s Hospice Live Life Ball, held at the newly refurbished Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, raised a record £400,000 on Saturday evening. The one-off bottle of St Columba’s ‘AOIBHINN’ Ardbeg Reserve, in a unique bottle designed by Maeve Gillies, raised £27,000 alone.
Janice Gammell, Chair of the Live Life Ball Committee, said: “This is an amazing result and I speak for the committee when I say we have been humbled by the support we have received. Raising £400,000 is more than we ever imagined and it’s a privilege to know that thousands of people over the next 35 yrs of St Columba’s Hospice will benefit from one night of generosity and kindness.”
Margaret Dunbar, Chief Executive of St Columba’s Hospice, said: “Our ambitious plans for a £26 million rebuild of St Columba’s Hospice are well underway and this amazing result will bring us one step closer to completing the project. We offer our heartfelt appreciation to everyone who contributed to the success of this event. We will return to our spiritual home in Trinity, overlooking the Firth of Forth, in Spring 2014. Our new St Columba’s Hospice will allow us to continue to provide the highest quality of care for the people of Edinburgh and the Lothians for the next 35 years.”
Lesley Christie, Fundraising Director, St Columba’s Hospice, said: “This is without doubt our most successful fundraising event ever and we have been overwhelmed by the support and goodwill which has been shown towards St Columba’s Hospice. We are enormously grateful to our Live Life Committee for their incredible commitment to making this event such an overwhelming success, and to everyone who came long and supported us on the night.”
For further information please contact Jen Wood at St Columba’s Hospice on 0131 551 1381 / 07552 167967 / jwood@stcolumbashospice.org.uk
Notes:
ST COLUMBA’S HOSPICE has been caring for patients in Edinburgh and the Lothians with cancer and other terminal illnesses since 1977. The Day Hospice, In-Patient Unit and Community Nursing Team are all vital resources, providing specialist care to over 1,000 people and their families each year. The Hospice aims to help people live as actively as possible, from diagnosis, right up to the end of their lives. As well as the highest quality of clinical care, the Hospice also offers emotional, spiritual and practical support to patients, their families and carers. St Columba’s Hospice aims to help people face the most difficult experience they will ever go through, with confidence and dignity. All services are given completely free of charge. St Columba’s Hospice is currently being completely rebuilt to create a state-of-the-art specialist palliative care facility. The Hospice has temporarily decanted all clinical services to Kirklands House, Gogarbank for the duration of the rebuild project. St Columba’s Hospice will return to Trinity, North Edinburgh in 2014. St Columba’s is a charity, not part of the NHS. It costs over £6m per annum to keep our Hospice running and the Hospice is dependent on donations to find 67% of that money. The rebuild project will cost £26 million, £2.7 million of which still needs to be raised.
The Ballintine’s 17 year old wins the coveted Scotch Whisky Of The Year by Jim Murray in his 2013 Whisky Bible.
The stunning Ballintine’s 17 Year Old blended Scotch was named both Scotch Whisky of the year and the world’s third best whisky anywhere by Jim Murray in his 2013 Whisky Bible awards.
Stock of this highly acclaimed single malt will not last long as fans yearn to taste the finest Scotch Whisky anywhere in the world.
To help celebrate this marvellous achievement The Whisky Shop are continuing to offer free postage on this and all orders but we expect stock to sell very quickly… Only £51.99
Nose: Deep, balanced, elegant with hints of oak, smoke and vanilla.
Taste: Full and complex, vibrant honey sweetness and creamy vanilla flavours with hints of oak and peat smoke.
Finish: Long, lightly smoky, vanilla and finally a hint of salt.
The Whisky Shop Tel 0141 440 0600 info@whiskyshop.com www.whiskyshop.com
Whiskies of the World holds Whisky Pairing Dinner, San Francisco at the Thirsty Bear
Tuesday, Oct 16, 6:00pm
661 Howard St.,San Francisco
$65 All inclusive
Dram Club $55 (Dram Club members use link in personal email invite)
The ThirstyBear presents a contemporary and seasonal approach to traditional Spanish tapas. Utilizing local organic and seasonal products as much as possible and working with local farms causes frequent changes in the menu at ThirstyBear. Well known as a great place for beer, it is also a convenient place to enjoy a dram.
Chef Laurance Gorden has put together a delectable six course menu to pair with our exquisite whiskies for the evening.
Whiskies:
Reception Cocktail
Isle of Skye 12yr
Arran 10yr
Arran 14yr
Arran Port Finish Sauternes
Arran Port Finish Amarone
Kilchoman Machir Bay
Menu:
First
Smoked oyster, celery root
Second
Arugula, fennel, and cranberry salad
Third
Red trout, peppers and garlic
Fourth
House made Butifarra sausage, white beans, mustard greens
Fifth
Selection of three cheeses, mixed nuts, spent grain bread
Sweet
Dark chocolate espresso mousse
For further information and to book visit www.whiskiesoftheworld.com
On September 24th Whisky Intelligence posted THIS ARTICLE about a mysterious 45 year old Lochside. Here is the completed hand made bottle and white oak box with only 30 in existence and 14 have been spoken for already. Jim Murray has sampled this rare single malt and says it is going to be one of the highest scores he has given out. The cask came available from an estate and was purchased by Vintage Malt Whisky Company and Marcus von Albrecht & Associates; they are going to try to save the balance for a 50 year old release however this will be dependent on the remaining alcohol level.
Each bottle is numbered and the price for BC and Alberta should be available next week. This exciting project that has taken a year to bring together. More to information to follow!
Islay is a majestic, weather beaten land combining natural beauty with the rugged outdoors and we want to give two of our friends from around the world the chance to explore our island home on the ultimate Bowmore adventure.
Along with our Brand Advocates Ken Hames and Colin Prior, the winners will enjoy a unforgettable five day trip to Islay, from surviving on an uninhabited island overnight to photographing majestic eagles at dawn, this trip will be the ultimate outdoor lovers adventure around Islay.
After experiencing all the outdoors can throw at you its back to the Bowmore distillery to enjoy your reward. Highlights of your trip will include:
• Dawn Islay photography master class with Colin Prior
• Construction of a hide with Ken Hames
• An overnight expedition to the island of Scarba
• Foraging for lunch
• VIP tour and an in-depth tasting at Bowmore including some very special expressions
For your chance to win this ultimate experience just click on the button below.
Whisky Ramblings Via Video #23
Mark Dermul, Belgian Whiskyblogger, puts the wonderful Islay whisky of Port Ellen from 1982 head-to-head. One bottling from Douglas Laing in their Old Malt Cask series and one bottling from QVID, a Belgian retailer. Grand whisky, no two ways about it.
ARMORIK Millésime 2002: celebrating 25 years of Breton Whisky with a 10 years old single malt whisky
The 100 years old family distillery from northern Brittany releases its first Armorik 10 years old.
25 years ago, on the northern coast of Brittany, the first Breton whisky was released from Warenghem distillery’s warehouses. To celebrate this anniversary, we are proud to launch our first ARMORIK 10 years old.
ARMORIK Millésime 2002, Oloroso Sherry Cask N° 3261, is the first in a series of single casks launched to celebrate 25 years of whisky in Brittany. These casks, distilled in February 2002 and selected for their unique quality, have been secretly preserved in the silence and the twilight of our warehouse. Once a year, a cask from this batch will be bottled in a specific packaging highlighting the men behind this whisky.
ARMORIK Millésime 2002, 1st edition
Single Cask, 56.1%, Un-chillfiltered
Distilled: February 25th, 2002
Bottled: May 2012
Cask: N° 3261 – Sherry Oloroso
Nb. of bottles: 748
Whisky in Brittany: 25 Years of innovation
Year 1987 marked a turning point for Warenghem distillery. Our 100 years old family distillery started producing Breton whisky! Considering that Brittany, Ireland and Scotland shared the same Celtic roots, Gilles Leizour and Bernard Le Pallec decided to create a unique distillery inspired by the traditional techniques of its Scottish cousins.
Our artisanal, familial distillery boasts more than 100 years of experience in liqueurs and spirits. Driven by our motto «Tradition and Innovation», our team of 15 people passionately work to manufacture high-quality products.
Warenghem distillery’s range is sold in supermarkets and specialist shops in France and is rapidly growing on export markets such as Holland, Germany, Belgium and USA.
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Contact Distillerie Warenghem: info@distillerie-warenghem.com
Distillerie Warenghem, route de Guingamp, 22300 Lannion, France, +33 (0)2 96 37 00 08
Bruichladdich Octomore 5.1
‘The world’s peatiest whisky’ returns, with this the fifth annual release of Octomore from Bruichladdich distillery, Islay. Peated to 169ppm, Bruichladdich Octomore 5.1 is 5 years of age, bottled in 2012 at cask strength, 59.5% abv.
Only £97.50
(£81.25 ex vat)
Click here to buy Bruichladdich Octomore 5.1
Port Charlotte PC10 / 59.8%
Port Charlotte PC10, a limited edition annual bottling which has been created from a heavily peated Bruichladdich spirit. Matured in American oak casks for 10 years and bottled at cask strength, 59.8% vol.
Only £80.00
(£66.67 ex vat)
Click here to buy Port Charlotte PC10
Abbey Whisky
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www.abbeywhisky.com
0800 051 7737
The Blog Team assist with quality ‘checks’ at Abhainn Dearg Distillery on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
Visit the Blog HERE to read all about it…
