Musings

And the winner is… well… everyone! IWSC 2009

July 28, 2009 by Lucas +

So yeah, the Alpha and Omega of all the booze competitions, the one and only, glorious and true International Wine And Spirit Competition announced its results sometime last week. Some ‘particularly successful’ [...]

Kilmarnock. What needs to be done then?

July 10, 2009 by Chris +

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[poll id="28"] Diageo are closing the bottling plant in Kilmarnock. Coupled with this, they are closing down the Port Dundas grain whisky distillery and Dundashill cooperage in Glasgow. So what are we seeing? We are seeing [...]

Stonings, hangings and PR suicides

July 7, 2009 by Lucas +

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[poll id="27"] It has been mayhem. And it has been really hard to keep up with it. We waited and then waited more before writing up our opinions on the matter, hoping we would get a clear picture eventually. Not happening. [...]

Joe’s Whisky Experience

July 5, 2009 by Chris +

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A long overdue report of Joe’s visit to The Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh after the massive £3m revamp… was it worth it? **** In general my whisky experience CV does not read well at all. Between pouring [...]

Ian Macleod Distillers pull out the 40yo big guns

May 21, 2009 by Chris +

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A few months back, Lucas and I had a thoroughly enjoyable evening watching Champions League football, drinking pints and sampling what we thought was going to be one of Ian Macleod’s biggest weapons in 2009, Smokehead [...]