The Whisky Boys received a couple of samples from Nicol van Rijbroek a marketing executive from The BenRiach Distillery Co. Ltd. and a big thank you goes out to Nicol.
As all our regular readers know, Nicola is still struggling with heavily peated single malts, so it falls to Jim to taste these two peated drams, [...]
After our successful Irish Whiskey tasting month last October we have just received a bottle of Tullamore Dew from Rik Salmon of Eulogy, London www.eulogy.co.uk which we give a BIG thanks.
Tullamore Dew is produced by William Grant & Sons, an independent family-owned distiller headquartered in the United Kingdom and founded by William Grant in 1887. [...]
Highland Park - Thor - Whisky of the Gods
A very intriguing parcel arrived for the Whisky Boys this morning, and after a read through and a look at the cryptic clue, we deduced that we had in our hands some fabulously coordinated material from Highland Park (nice work).
This new limited release is available from today [...]
This is an exceptional dram we have just received and as both Jim and Nicola have both visited this great Island and Jim has certainly enjoyed all the Jura expressions and one of his all time favourites is Superstition.
Isle of Jura Distillery,
Craighouse,
Isle of Jura,
Argyll,
PA60 7XT.
telephone – 01496 820385
website – www.isleofjura.com
The Tasting.
Isle of Jura 1976
Feith A’ [...]
The festive season is now at an end and it is early evening on Saturday 7th January and this is our first tasting of 2012.
It could not be a better tasting than going over to the fabulous Isle of Islay for this special tasting.
This distillery was founded over two centuries ago in 1779, Bowmore is [...]
It is the few days between Christmas and New Year and Jim and Nicola have poured a wee dram each and are looking at oaberlour-abunadh-gold-corkur selections and shortlists for our 2011 Whisky Awards….
Jim was excited to receive from The Jura Team a sample of this new expression.
So last night, Thursday 8th of December we managed to get round to having a wee tasting of this special malt, Nicola came round to Jim’s at around 8 pm and we both sat down and poured a wee glass of [...]
The Whisky Boys like the look of this new spirit, we shall try and get our hands on some and let you know our tastings, but at 65% Alc/vol it may need quite a wee bit of water to calm it down.
Cooley to bring Poitín out of the Shadows
Cooley Distillery, the European Distiller of [...]
This is the second Glasgow Whisky Festival and Jim and Nicola were once again looking forward to this sold out event.
We arrived early in Glasgow and once again had a good lunch in the Piccolo Mondo a fine dinning Italian restaurant not far from The Arches, after which we headed for the festival but before [...]
It is early evening on Thursday 17th November 2011 and at the special invite from Helen Stewart, U.K. Brand Manager if the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) The Whisky Boys are heading of to the west end of Glasgow for a tasting at 1 Devonshire Gardens, one of Glasgow’s most prestigious hotels [...]
