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We drank Mortlach 70 years old! All of it.

Obviously the news of the moment is the oldest whisky in the world - Mortlach 70 years old - released yesterday in Edinburgh by Gordon & MacPhail. Now, I was actually there, as those of you who follow our Twitter well know, and I have all the press goodies - detailed info, high-res pictures, opinions - [...]

Ardbeg Rollercoaster: Official Photo!

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Get your whisky cheaper!

To some of you it won’t come as a surprise that we are now tightening our bond with Master of Malt, an excellent online whisky retailer. It is run by generally rather cool guys (apart from the fact they are mostly English) and we get on with them very well. The results of this international [...]

Ardbeg Rollercoaster update

Important update! Not for the first time we’ve said way too much. The tasting is so deeply unofficial that it seems we can’t even talk about it… this post has now been stripped of all the juicy details. Apologies to those who had their hands slapped.
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Here comes Ardbeg Rollercoaster!

Update (15/02/2010): High resolution photo and our review
Here it comes! The new Ardbeg is just round the corner. On February 15th Ardbeg Rollercoaster will be made available through the Ardbeg website. It is a vatting of 10 casks, one from each year between 1997 and 2006, put together co celebrate the tenth anniversary of the [...]

Shackleton didn’t want his whisky. Do you?

Something significant happened today. Scotch whisky made it to the headlines of news services worldwide. And not because Tiger Woods bought a nice bottle for his wife in the way of apology.
Kiwi snow-and-frost-lovers found and unearthed some MacKinlay’s blend from underneath Ernest Shackleton’s hut built and used by him in Antarctica during his failed South [...]

Quirky new toys at Bruichladdich

Sitting fabulously in contrary to my previous post about the prospects of turning whisky into a high-tech industry with the use of lasers, nanotechnology and chemical engineering; Bruichladdich sent us photos of two ‘new’ stills installed recently at the distillery. One of them is a 130 years old Victorian pot still, renovated by Forsyths of [...]

Someone got pissed off?

Persons with heart conditions and those who are currently within a granade-haul-distance from Downing Street in London (and happen to have a granade on them) are advised not to read this post.
Ever-reliable scotchwhisky.net reported that The Edrington Group’s chairman, Sir Ian Good got well pissed off when he found out that Gordon Brown had said [...]

The Manager’s Choice 2nd Release

Diageo has just announced the release of the second batch of their (in)famous Manager’s Choice expressions. The release comprises of 6 new single cask whiskies:
Blair Athol: Nov 1995, 570 bottles, Bodega Sherry European Oak, £200
Cragganmore: May 1997, 246 bottles, Bodega Sherry European Oak, £250
Dalwhinnie: February 1992, 270 bottles, Refill American Oak, £250
Dufftown: May 1997, 282 [...]

Launching a YouTube Channel!

Yup, that’s right. It does exactly what it says on the tin. You go to YouTube, subscribe and watch us doing stupid things with/after whisky. We are hoping to fire out a video every couple of days. If you don’t have a YouTube account, don’t worry - we’ll be posting the videos here as well… [...]