Adelphi Distillery I’ve been following the progress of the Adelphi Distillery, the new single malt whisky distillery at Ardnamurchan with great interest. Ardnamurchan is the most westerly point of mainland Scotland – an area of incredible beauty, not least of all for its many sandy bays. The original Adelphi Distillery was built in 1825 and …
A World Cup Whisky We were contacted this week by a customer who wanted a 40 year old whisky. It was wanted as a present for his friend’s 40th birthday. With the Football World Cup just around the corner, we recommended Tullibardine 1966 World Cup Edition 40 year old. It’s a really great dram and …
Kingsbarns Distillery Kingsbarns Distillery, the new single malt whisky distillery that’s getting built at Kingsbarns, near St. Andrews in the East Neuk of Fife has had me watching its progress with great interest. It is classified as being in the Lowlands whisky region of Scotland – which is good news as another single malt whisky …
Robert Burns / Whisky / Japan Some years ago the CEO of a whisky company was delighted to host a Robert Burns themed lunch for some representatives from one of Japan’s largest electronic companies at his head office in the Lowland whisky region of Scotland. The delegates were in the UK to meet some of …
Passing Off Single Malt Whisky – A War Time Tale Here’s a true story about passing off single malt whisky during the second world war. Back in those days, whisky was fairly scarce and single malt whisky was even scarcer. One Glaswegian publican always seemed to manage to lay his hands on an unending supply …
Pairing Single Malt Whisky – Chocolate It seems to be the case that there is much fun to be had by pairing foodstuffs with single malt whiskies. Changed days in my book; it doesn’t seem too long ago when it was deemed a heinous crime to adulterate “uisge beatha” by adding, perish the thought – …
Whisky “Travellers” When our family started in the licensed trade well over 70 years ago, one of the weekly events was the visit to our pubs from the various whisky company “travellers”. In today’s parlance I am referring to “B.D.E.’s”, which stands for “Business Development Executives” – or “Sales Reps.”, to use a more widely known …
Single Malt Whisky – Highland Region Highland region single malt whiskies are often looked on as being large powerful whiskies. They are sometimes noted as being peaty and smoky and often sweet and honey rich. It is such a large and diverse region which makes it almost impossible to be specific when categorising Highland whiskies. …
Single Malt Whisky – What Is It? Single Malt Scotch Whisky is defined as being made at one particular Scottish distillery from a mash that uses only barley. There can be much confusion surrounding the simple word “single”. A single malt whisky is nothing more or less than the product of a single malt whisky distillery. …
Single Malt Whisky – Dalmore Constellation Collection Single Malt Whisky – Dalmore Constellation Collection can now be purchased through Whisky Please. The complete spectrum of vintages created in Dalmore’s iconic Highland single malt whisky distillery between the years 1964 and 1992 are available. The 21 single cask whiskies that make up this collection are remarkable and …