As a wee extra this Sunday, Dougie brought over a bottle Bushmills, so began another tasting.
Bushmills Malt 10 Year Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey, 40% alc. (Green Label)
Some facts:-

Ireland’s oldest whiskey distillery
Celebrated 400th anniversary last year (2008)
A grand selection of products of which some of them are:-
Bushmills Original, Blend White Label
Bushmills Blackbush A De-luxe Blend [...]

The bottle is quite unique, flat on one side and rounded on the other, easily spotted in the supermarket and all good Whisky shops. Nicola commented on one thing that she has not seen on any other bottles, ‘nutrition information’, i.e. how fattening this Whisky is, and we are sure that its the same values for all other Scotch’s, unless you know better.

Saturday 24th January 2009, for us, its ‘Burns Night’ round at the Ferguson household, the ‘Beastie’ is simmering away while Dougie awaited the arrival of our Jim, Dougie Bell, Mark, John and Trevor, all gathering here to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of our Bard, Mr. Robert Burns Esq. These celebrations being [...]

Lagavulin Distillery
Port Ellen
Isle of Islay
PA42 7DZ
telephone: 01496 302400
website www.malts.com
This is a tasting that both Jim and Dougie were looking forward to for a long long time, but thanks to Jim’s son-in-law for giving the Whisky Boys an unopened bottle for us to enjoy.
Lagavulin Distillery on the fabulous Isle of Islay one of Jim’ most favourite [...]

Licensed in 1824, it is said that a malt Whisky was distilled at Craigellachie many, many, many years prior to its licensing .

The Macallan must be the best known Speyside/Highland and in the top three/four best known Distilleries in the World. (the other three/four are also Scottish Distilleries.)

Its the 3rd of January 2009 and this is our first tasting of the new year and all three of us are in attendance, Jim,Dougie and Nicola.
Lets get down to business and do what the Whisky Boys do best, taste and detail our comments and recommendations.
P.S. Happy Scotch Whisky tasting to all who visit our [...]

The Whisky Shop
Princes Mall
Edinburgh
EH1 1BQ
telephone 0131-558 7563
Now Jim and Dougie have a tale to tell.
Once upon a time Jim opened his e-mail and was very excited to see an e-mail from Darren Leitch inviting us to a tasting in association with Douglas Laing.
As both Jim and Dougie have quite a few Old Malt Cask, Provenance [...]

Highland Park Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Aged 12 years.
Distilled in Kirkwall, Orkney.
Scapa Distillery lies just about a mile south of Highland Park Distillery which then makes it the northern most distillery in Scotland.
Highland Park have an excellent web site, worth a visit.
This site will take you through their full and concise range of single malts, [...]

Crown Royal Limited Edition Blended Canadian Whisky 40% alc./vol
Crown Royal Blended Canadian Whisky and said to be the Jewel of Canada.
This Whisky was created in 1939 to celebrate King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Canada.
Jim and Dougie were given a bottle each of this blend on Nicola’s return from a [...]

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 [...]