Please see below video The Macallan created to thank their fans for reaching the 100,000 fans milestone on Facebook.

The Macallan, single malt whisky brand thank their 100,000 Facebook fans:

To celebrate breaking through the 100,000 Facebook fans mark, The Macallan team at the distillery filmed a very special ‘thank you’ for all of their Facebook fans around the world. Shot on The Macallan’s Easter Elchies Estate, the distillery team name-check random fans for ‘being their friend on Facebook’. The campaign has been devised by PR and digital marketing consultancy, The BIG Partnership, who deliver social marketing and PR for The Macallan.

THE MOVIE

Port Ellen 11yo 1983/1994 (59.4%, SMWS, 43.8)

An older bottling from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society than was distilled in March 1983 and bottled in September 1994 at 59.4% and there fore some what of a rarity these days. It’s remained unopened until 2012 and on the nose there is a sensational peat arrival; both rich coal tar or coal fires and malt with a little cocoa to brings things up market some what. This is heady stuff and magic in the glass. A little more examination reveals some hints of loam and some good oak spice with some really good vibrancy. Really quite sensational. The taste is just like the aromas but bigger with a brilliant duality from the very big peat smoke and the malt (and with the cocoa – don’ts forget the cocoa. Again very, very good and while not maddeningly complex it is a fine dram. A really very good coal tar syrupy mouth feel. The finish is again a tag team of the peat smoke malt and the cocoa and brilliantly perfect. The finish is long, massive, reaches every crevice of the brain and is very good. Some what down the road the dry powder cocoa makes an appearance as a final hurrah.

Quite an experience. A malt moment that makes it all worth it and something for the collective industry to aspire to. Not a drop of water required.

No recollection on price but must have been around £42

Score 94 points

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1995 Cooley 16 Year Old A.D. Rattray Single Barrel Cask Strength Irish Whiskey 750ml – 5 available ($125.99)

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HIGHLAND PARK CLINCHES SEVEN NEW ACCOLADES

The award winning single malt whisky Highland Park, distributed by Maxxium UK, has clinched a total of seven new awards for both Thor and Highland Park 50 year old reinforcing the brand’s ability to continue to win the highest accolades for new and limited editions.

Following the recent launch of Thor, the first edition of Highland Park’s stunning Valhalla Collection, (a range of four unique whiskies, released annually, taking inspiration from the legendary Nordic gods of old) it has been awarded the first ever Spirit Design Masters Award at The Spirits Business 2012 Awards. The stunning 16 year old single malt, which is the newest edition to the Highland Park family, also secured Gold, Best in Class at the International Spirits Challenge 2012. This is one of the most respected and influential spirit competitions in the world, receiving more than 1000 entries from across 70 countries.

Highland Park’s oldest ever island single malt whisky – Highland Park 50 year old, which launched exclusively at Harrods, London in 2010 has also collected a total of four awards. As well as winning Best Design at the World Whiskies Award 2012, this unique bottle, encased in an intricate ‘net cage’ of hand-crafted ornate Sterling silver created by Scottish jewellery designer Maeve Gillies, also took home the Best Limited Edition at the World Whiskies Design Awards. With only 275 bottles produced this prestigious edition was also named Best Single Malt Scotch 41 Years and Over (Multiple Casks), at the 2012 Whisky Bible Awards.

Adding to the brands successful run recently both Highland Park 50 year old and Thor have also both clinched a gold medal for design and packaging at the International Spirits Challenge 2012.

Peter Sandstrom, marketing director for Maxxium said: “To receive recognition from these respected industry bodies is a great honour and we are thrilled with the success we have achieved this year. The quality of the competition means that all of these awards are of great significance to us. We’re looking forward to building on this success in the near future, especially in terms of our newer editions, which will allow us to maintain our award winning reputation within the industry.”

To find out more about Highland Park please visit www.highlandpark.co.uk

Notes:

Highland Park:

Five keystones contribute to making the Best Spirit in the World:

· Hand-turned malt adds to the deliciously succulent, balanced layers of aromatic character found in Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.

· Aromatic peat gives a delectably seductive, luxuriant floral sweetness to Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.

· Cool maturation enhances the smooth character of Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.

· Sherry oak casks contribute to the distinctive richness and multi-dimensional complexity of Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.

· Cask harmonisation ensures consistency and balance in Highland Park single malt Scotch whisky.

Established in 1798 on Orkney, Highland Park is one of the most remote Scotch whisky distilleries in the world. For over 200 years, the distillery has combined time old tradition and the very best craftsmanship to achieve perfection. Its core range of 12, 18, 21, 25, 30 and 40 year old single malt is consistently acclaimed by connoisseurs and experts.

New Arran Ambassador

Here Come The Girls! Women Lead the Way for Arran Whisky
 
Award winning Scotch whisky producer, Isle of Arran Distillers, has appointed a new female ‘Ambassador of Arran’ from Japan to help drive sales in the territory.

Celebrating her contribution to sales of Arran Malt, Ms Keiko Manni was awarded the prestigious title recently at Arran’s annual open day after she made the trip to the distillery from Japan with her colleague Ms Sueko Yamada.

Over the past five years, both ladies have contributed significantly to driving forward sales of Arran Malt in Japan; Ms Manni is the Spirits Block Leader for Tokyo’s prestigious department store, Isetan, whilst Ms Yamada is in charge of the Sprits bar in the store, which is a key retailer of Arran Malt in Tokyo.

Whilst visiting the distillery Ms Manni and Ms Yamada sampled a number of casks, using their expert palates to select a new cask which would appeal to their home market. With the guidance of Master Distiller James McTaggart, and Arran’s Senior Brand Manager Louisa Young, they selected a Single Bourbon Cask distilled in 2001 to bottle exclusively for sale in Isetan in Tokyo.

Louisa Young, Senior Brand Manager at Isle of Arran Distillers, said: “Our export sales to Asia are significant and Japan is a key market for us. Keiko and Sueko have long been champions of our wonderful range of single malts so we were delighted to host them as our guests on this trip organised by our Japanese distributor Whisk-e. ”

Ms Manni and Ms Yamada’s visit to Arran is highly significant as these women are leading the way in what is traditionally a male dominated business.

Louisa continued: “Letting three females run loose in a distillery warehouse for an afternoon of cask sampling certainly gave our Distillery Manager a run for his money! It is great to see that the role of females within in the whisky industry has increased on a global level and they are more than making their mark in highly regarded, influential positions.”

Visit Isle of Arran Distillery at www.arranwhisky.com

We are delighted with our new website and hope you are too… To improve it further we are looking for your help and input. We would like to know what you want to see on the site so we can make our online home as interesting and useful as possible for our friends around the world.

Everyone who fills in the survey will be entered into our prize draw to win one of six bottles of our magical 12 Years Old or 15 Years Old ‘Darkest’.

Best wishes from Islay,

The Bowmore team

The Whisky Show 2012 was recently held in Sydney and attracted over 1000 attendees making it the biggest whisky event in Australia.

“We wanted to create something big that would have appeal to both exhibitors and attendees and I think we achieved that”,says Larry Aronson, director of World of Whisky the event organiser. “it was tough convincing distributors to part with budget in these difficult times, but we did it and frankly the results were amazing”.”All the major players were there as well as most the smaller distributors. I am particularly pleased with the presence of the Australian Distilleries, they were completely swamped by attendees wanting to know more about home grown whiskies”. There were over 150 whiskies to try over the two days and purchases could be made at discounted prices.

Most exhibitors have confirmed their attendance for next year’s show and the few who did not attend this year have already expressed an interest for 2013.

” We are already looking at ways of making it even bigger and better for next year”, Aronson said.

The Whisky Show 2012

New Single Malts of Scotland

Just a quickie to announce the arrival of some new Single Malts of Scotland releases from our sister company Speciality Drinks Ltd (SDL). They’ve been quite quiet on the bottling front this year, but with The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show … Continue reading >>