Posts Tagged ‘single malt’

Bowmore Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky 12 Year Old

By Jim • Nov 28th, 2008 • Category: Whisky Tastings & Head to Head

Bowmore Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky 12 Year Old.
As you would expect the distillery is situated on the shores of Loch Indaal on the unspoilt and stunning Hebridean Isle of Islay.  A more beautiful and tranquil place I have yet to find.
I first must ask any reader of this to go to www.bowmore.com where they [...]



Glengoyne Christmas Food and Drink Festival 2008

By Jim • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Whisky Festivals & Events

Glengoyne Christmas Food and Drink Festival
This one day festival is on Saturday the 6th of December 2008 from 11am until 5pm, and I hear you ask what is the cost, well its FREE to all.
It will be held in the Glengoyne Distillery, Drumgoyne, Near Killearn on the outskirts of Glasgow.
For the Whisky lovers there will [...]



Edinburgh to London Heathrow / Big Ben - 27th Oct 2008

By Dougie • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: Dougies Tales

Tales from the Terminal - Edinburgh to London Heathrow 27th Oct 2008
Big Ben
Just like to say a big hi to Ben whom I met on the Heathrow flight on Monday. Me, going to my work, Ben on a mission for the Forestry Commission.
We spent the whole flight discussing various alcoholic beverages and, although he is [...]



Malt of the Month - Nov 08

By Jim • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: Malt of the Month

Bruichladdich Rocks

Bruichladdich Distillery on the Atlantic Island of Islay is where master distiller Jim McEwan created this wonderful dram, as the name suggests Rocks have something to do with this Whisky.
The purest of pure Islay water was filtered through rocks that are 1800 million years old (give or take a week or two) and it [...]



anCnoc Highland Single Malt 12 Year Old

By Jim • Oct 27th, 2008 • Category: Whisky Tastings & Head to Head

It is 3.45 pm on Sunday the 26th of October 2008 (the clocks went back an hour last night and the Whisky Boys enjoyed the extra hour in bed) . We with all the respect that a bottle of good Malt is due, opened our bottle for tasting.



Whisky Castle - Tomintoul

By Jim • Oct 9th, 2008 • Category: Whisky Shops

Whisky Shops worth a visit.
Are you going to Speyside, Aviemore, Inverness, Elgin, Peterhead, Banff, Kingussie, Nairn or visiting Culloden?  Then you must, must visit the Whisky Castle in Tomintoul.
If you are a Whisky drinker then you may think that you have died and gone to heaven, the selection is fantastic, the owner / manager [...]