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Whisky Boys, Back to School - Exam Night

By Jim • Mar 10th, 2011 • Category: Jims Tales

It is Tuesday 8th of March at 6.30 pm, and all of John Lamond’s students have gathered at the Glasgow Metropolitan College.
Everyone was in good humour and the chat and banter was in good spirit.  The exam was made up of 50 multiple choice questions followed by a Whisky Tasting, we had to identify [...]



Blended Whisky of the Month - January 2011

By Jim • Jan 20th, 2011 • Category: Blend of the Month

Big Peat - Small Batch Vatted Islay Malt Scotch Whisky - 70cl, 46% Alc/vol
Yes, Vatted Malt is a Blend of Whiskies, in this case, this is a blend which includes Single Malts from Ardbeg, Bowmore, Caol Ila and Port Ellen Distilleries, all from the wonderful Island of Islay.
This is a non-chill filtered bottling from the [...]



Black Bottle Whisky - Blended Scotch Whisky

By Jim • Mar 13th, 2009 • Category: Whisky Tastings

Well as promised way back in January we have now done an official tasting of Black Bottle.
You will find out many details on this particular blend on our article Blend of the Month January 2009.
So came the night, Dougies wife Catherine was out on the ran dan for the whole of Saturday 7th March, so [...]