Fave Five …..

Which are your 5 bottles of whisky. (if you could only have five brand bottlings)

- No particular order

- No need to rate (your choice)

Pick on the ‘thumbnails’ to visit site

Cheers..

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SMOOTH BLEND OF JOHNNIE WALKER & THE RAPTORS

Get the guys together for a night of sophistication and basketball with the Toronto Raptors Johnnie Walker Scotch Tasting Package.

For only $120 per person you will enjoy:

• Lower Bowl ticket to the game.
• Scotch tasting session with a Brand Ambassador of the Johnnie Walker Family including Johnnie Walker Red Label, Black Label, Gold Label and Blue Label*.
• Pre-game hors d’oeuvres in the Johnnie Walker Hot Stove Lounge.
• Raptors Game Day Program and a Johnnie Walker money clip.

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Edrington acquires Cutty Sark

Britain’s leading fine wines and spirits merchant, Berry Bros. & Rudd (BB&R), has announced that it has finalised an agreement under which it will sell the Cutty Sark blended Scotch whisky brand to The Edrington Group, makers of The Famous Grouse and The Macallan.

Under the deal, BB&R will acquire The Glenrothes single malt brand from Edrington, which has signed long-term supply agreements to provide whisky fillings and stocks to BB&R. Edrington will retain ownership of The Glenrothes distillery.

The transaction will also involve Edrington acquiring all distribution contracts on Cutty Sark in force at the time of completion. The Edrington sales-and-distribution alliance (Maxxium) will continue to distribute The Glenrothes in key international markets and is also expected to provide a distribution option for other brands within BB&R’s super-premium spirits portfolio.

The agreement is due to be concluded by April 2010. The total consideration has not been revealed.

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Groundbreaking Whisky Event tonight…

Distillery Live 2009 - live from Maker’s Mark, Loretto, Kentucky!

Distillery Live Click Here

USA - 25/9/09 20:00 EDT
UK - 26/9/09 01:00 BST

Distillery Live will be on Friday September 25th at 20:00 (EDT) live from the Maker’s Mark Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky, USA.

The event will tell why Makers Mark are so special to Laphroaig (and will of course include a tasting of both) but will also include some food pairings and some very special cocktails!

Bookmark this page as on 25th September you will be able to log in and watch the video as well as submitting live questions to our panel.

To view this WebTV show, you’ll need Adobe Flash installed. If you don’t already have it, you can download it by clicking here. It can take a while to download so make sure you have it installed if you haven’t already before the event.

Distillery Live Click Here

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Forty Creek Port Wood

It has been a little while since I tasted Canadian Club 20 yr CC or Wisers Red Letter (2 of my all-time favorite Canadian Whisky’s) but I have to think that I’ve just tasted this writers favourite Canadian whisky.
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting Kittling Ridge Distillery in Grimsby Ontario, for the unveiling of Forty Creek Port Wood Reserve.

But don’t just take my word for it.
Read what first generation Whisky maker John Hall says…

“I believe it is one of the best whiskies I have tasted.  I only wish I had made more of it.  I started this whisky in 1993 by preparing vintage port wood barrels.  My vintage ports were made from Niagara grown grapes and aged in white oak heavy charred barrels.  I must confess I am fond of vintage ports so the patient waiting was rewarded not only with a wonderful whisky, but with some very tasty ports.
My Port Wood Reserve is made in the same style as Forty Creek Barrel Select and Double Barrel, in that I do not use a mash bill. My varietal whiskies are aged separately, and once completed, they are brought together for further rounding out.  In this whisky, the forty Creek blend was aged in the vintage Port Wood for another two years prior to bottling.”

Relating to Forty Creek, check out these opinions from world renowned whisky experts

Only 3000 bottles Ontario only get yours signed soon

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Australian whisky steps onto world stage

smh.com.au

Australia’s emerging Whisky industry takes a step onto the world stage this week as it hosts an international tasting event for the first time.

Four Australian distilleries will have their products on show at Whisky Live, an event that began in London in 2000 and this year includes Sydney in its travels to 15 cities.

While Scotland may traditionally be known as the home of whisky, Australia is becoming an increasingly significant producer of the sophisticated spirit, organisers said….

…… In the years since others have taken to the fine art, particularly in Tasmania, where a combination of good quality barley, pure water sources, highland peat bogs and a cold climate create a perfect location to make malt whisky…

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Warm Glow: Biomass Serves Green Whiskey in Scotland

By Bill DiBenedetto | September 10th, 2009

triplepundit.com

Leave it to the Scots to find ways to get energy out of whiskey.

If you like your whiskey neat or even if you don’t this is pretty neat — Helius Energy Plc and the Combination of Rothes Distillers (CoRD) formed a joint venture known as Helius CoRDe, which will build and operate a biomass energy plant using whiskey distillery by-products.

The proposed £50 million ($82.7 million) project would reduce the carbon footprint of the whiskey industry on the Scottish island of Speyside.

The plant will use whiskey distillery by-products to fuel a 7.2-megawatt GreenSwitch biomass combined heat and power  plant (CHP) and a GreenFields plant that will turn the liquid co-product of whiskey production, known as Pot Ale, into a concentrated organic fertilizer and an animal feed for use by local farmers.

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Figures show whisky sector not in decline

Mark Smith, the Herald

Published on 11 Sep 2009

The Scotch whisky industry is not in crisis, in spite of mass layoffs at Diageo and recent production cuts at Chivas Brothers, and the forthcoming global export data will prove it, insiders at the Scotch Whisky Association claim.

The industry body’s figures for the first half of 2009, set for release at the end of the month, will reveal an uptick in the overall value of shipments around the world, SWA insiders said.

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