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And now for something completely different: The Dramathon

July 3, 2018 by Chris +

Dramathon. A week long Netflix binge of Emmy Award winning silver screen dramas? Nope. A 24 hour marathon session of whisky drinking? Not even Lukasz would attempt that. A series of long distance races along the Speyside Way [...]

Would you ever pay £80 for Aberlour a’bunadh?

May 28, 2018 by Chris +

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Well… would you? Let me be quite clear here. This, shockingly, isn’t a hypothetical question. I’m not talking about the very first five batches of a’bunadh; the un-numbered batches produced way back in single malt’s [...]

Spirit of Speyside Festival 2014

June 30, 2014 by Chris +

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As most of you will know, May was designated ‘whisky month’ by the big wigs at Visit Scotland as part of the 2014 Homecoming Year. At the start of the May I was lucky enough to be invited up to the Spirit of Speyside Festival [...]

Aberlour Distillery: other distilleries should learn from them

November 17, 2012 by Chris +

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Recently, I was in Speyside for a few days seeing friends and visiting distilleries. It’s what I do on my days off. I think the pick of the distilleries I visited was Aberlour, because their standard tour was such good [...]

An evening with the Water of Life Society

April 8, 2012 by Chris +

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An evening in the company of Edinburgh University’s Water of Life Society For many months now we’ve been meaning to get ourselves along to an event hosted by Edinburgh University’s Water of Life Society (WOLS for [...]