Archive for December, 2009

New Year Bars

Travelling to Edinburgh for New Year?  Not keen on standing on Princes Street, as the temperature plummets below zero and the alcohol becomes scarcer and scarcer?  Here is my advice: Find a bar with an excellent selection of whisky, that’s nice and warm and has good food on offer. Get a comfy seat and have [...]

Merry Christmas!

Sitting in my parents’ house with a smoky wonder number 76 from the SMWS in one hand and a Ferrero Rocher in the other (typing with my toes) I am mentally and phisically ready for all the excess of the hours and, indeed, days to come. I have some real crackers lined up; apart from the 76 there is [...]

Whisky For Christmas: The Ultimate Guide

The Edinburgh Whisky Blog Towers are showing cracks in foundations  and are leaning slightly towards east (”always head East, there must be civilisation somewhere there!”). Under the unbearable burden of letters, cards and mail pigeon guano, floors inside the buildings are flexing and trembling. Our Personal Assistants and Office Administrators, as well as seasonal staff, [...]

It’s our Birthday soon!

It’s the Edinburgh Whisky Blog’s birthday soon. Our little creation is going to be 1 on January 12th. I feel so proud, emotional and… I… I… promised myself I wouldn’t cry. Ok Chris, pull yourself together.
So what are Lucas and I going to do to celebrate? Spend a night drinking on our own? Go to [...]

Highland Park ‘The Earl Magnus’ Edition 1

We have just received a pigeon from Orkney. Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney from the 11th century, will be honoured by Highland Park distillery with his very own bottling.
I must admit I had never heard about Earl Magnus. I am pretty ignorant when it comes to the 11th century history of Orkney… or, for that [...]

Food and whisky matching video from Balvenie

A dram of wisdom or marketing noise? You tell us! There probably isn’t anything said there that you don’t already know, pretty much common sense. But it’s only 3min and potentially worth watching.

Diurachs went bonkers for Facebook

Whyte & Mackay peeps are currently running a promo where you can stay in the famous Jura Lodge for two nights for absolutely nothing. I shall maybe add that normally it costs £300 a night, so it definitely ain’t grease B&B.
Obviously it’s not just free-for-all / please-ruin-us-completely kind of a deal. In order to qualify, [...]

The Whisky Show 2009… Awesome

I was very lucky, a couple of weeks ago, to be invited to the Whisky Show 2009 by Tim Forbes from The Whisky Exchange. It was amazing! The Whisky Exchange and Whisky Show boys wanted to show how things could be done and I was left seriously impressed.
So what is the Whisky Show, I hear [...]

Glenfiddich 50. We would like to make $10 bid.

It’s always the same old story with students, they don’t have money. The good thing is they are rarely bitter about it. But I am different. I am extremely bitter about not having money to bid for this wee cutie. Glenfiddich 50 years old has been released by the distillery earlier on this year, but [...]

A Quick Dram: Jura Prophecy

A weird name, an eyebrow-raising logo, a fabulously untrue backstory. It has to be the new Jura!
Jura Prophecy
Isle of Jura
heavily peated, un-chillfiltered
46% ABV
£56
Nose: Burning leaves and tires, lavender, liquorice, oranges. Briny and assertive. Big and fun. Definitely Jura, but not how you know it.
Palate: Awesome! Smoky and bitter, spicy and citrusy, powerful and clean. Delivers [...]