Musings

I like Jim Murray 41.5/100

October 7, 2009 by Lucas +

The whisky world buzzed. And behind the scenes is shrieked with annoyance. Another Whisky Bible is out and guess what? Ardbeg won the thing again. This time it’s the Supernova with the near-perfect score of 97/100. But [...]

Manager’s Choice, Executive’s Price

September 7, 2009 by Chris +

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So… the biggest whisky news of the year has been broken. The Managers Choice selection. 27 single cask whiskies, one from each Diageo distillery, bar the behemoth that is Roseisle. When I first got wind of this news [...]

The Manager’s Choice

September 4, 2009 by Lucas +

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They are out! It’s official. There will be a total of 27 (one from each distillery) over the next year or so. The first batch of six (see the picture) should be available any day now from good retailers. And now the [...]

Don’t be such a square…

August 28, 2009 by Lucas +

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**** Right, prepare for one of my famous statements. There are some seriously nuts people in this world, but without them our civilisation would stand still. Those people from the land of Unorthodox just wake up in the [...]

Competition rant follow up…

July 29, 2009 by Lucas +

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When I was publishing a few bitter words yesterday about the International Wine and Spirit Awards, I did not know (I swear!) that Mark Reynier had already fired out a post on his own blog concerning exactly the same thing [...]