Christmas Drams Christmas drams seem to feature on a lot of people’s Christmas shopping lists. We’ve seen a trend over the past few days for a lot of whiskies to get sent direct to people as presents. Geographically, we are shipping much whisky to the south east of the UK and our couriers are doing …
Whisky for Christmas Right around this time of year, we gets lots of calls and e-mails from people seeking advice on what whisky for Christmas they should buy. It is, of course, personal taste – but when you’re buying for someone else, you don’t want to get the wrong whisky for Christmas. This year it …
Dalmore Whisky for Christmas Last year, a lot of our customers and friends / family spent Christmas with Dalmore Whisky due to the fact they bought the Dalmore Whisky glass gift pack we were offering (for a very reasonable price!). This year, we have another glass gift pack; Dalmore Whisky 15 year old with two Dalmore …
Old St. Andrews Whisky Two weeks on and we’ve just about recovered from the frenzy that was the Old St. Andrews Whisky “tweet tasting”. We have described the process of a tweet tasting in a previous blog, so this blog will cover the virtues of four quite excellent drams from a fantastic producer and distributor …
Balvenie Tun 1509 Whisky now available from Whisky Please; stocks won’t last long! We are excited to have been given an allocation of the very much anticipated anticipated whisky. This fine expression from Balvenie was released in late September 2014. Balvenie Tun 1509 is the successor to the much lauded Balvenie Tun 1401; a revered spirit …
Whisky Tweet Tasting We were happy this week to be contacted by Steve Rush, the man behind two great, informative whisky websites; The Whisky Wire and The Whisky Business. Steve has asked us to take part in a forthcoming whisky tweet tasting. For those of you that may not know what a whisky tweet tasting …
anCnoc Peaty Range As the name suggests; this is a range of whisky expressions from anCnoc which have a lofty peat content. We have just received stock of the latest bottling in the range; Cutter. anCnoc Cutter Single Malt Whisky is the fourth expression in the anCnoc Peaty Range limited edition. It has the highest …
Glenfarclas 60 Year Old We were lucky to get our hands on one bottle of Glenfarclas 60 year old last week. This is a magnificent whisky and beautifully packaged. Only 360 bottles of this incredibly desirable, rare single malt whisky were produced, offering a unique opportunity to acquire one of the oldest bottles ever released by …
Littlemill Distillery Littlemill Distillery sat on the border of the Lowlands and Highlands at Bowling in West Dunbartonshire. Littlemill Distillery claimed it was founded in 1772, which if validated would make it the oldest whisky distillery in Scotland. The aluminium-coated copper pot stills used rectifying columns instead of traditional swan necks to allow greater control over …
Douglas Laing and Co. We were approached recently by Douglas Laing and Co. to see if we’d consider listing their very fine whiskies on our website. It was, as you may think, a “no brainer”! Douglas Laing and Co. have been blending and bottling fine whiskies since 1948. They have an interesting history; a family …