Archive for June, 2011
Despite my best efforts I know that I am a weak man. I have the willpower of a two year old sat unattended in front of a trough of paint and can have troubles putting down a packet of Polos until I have finished the pack (not advisable with sugar free mints – they hurt [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2011 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: albannach, chita, hakushu, hibiki, suntory, whisky squad, yamazaki, zoran peric
Comments: 2
This post has been fomenting for a while, but the perils of work and thinking too much about whisky have forced it into the background until now. Domu888 on twitter (Dominic Edsall in real life) asked me a while back what my top 10 whiskies under £50 were. I fired off a few off the [...]
Posted: June 26th, 2011 under Whisky.
Tags: aberloud, ardbeg, clynelish, compass box, glenlivet, hedonism, laphroaig, longrow, old pulteney, tweeddale blend
Comments: 7
Ludo Ducrocq is a worryingly busy man. As global brand ambassador for William Grant and Sons‘s range of blended whiskies he seems to spend a lot of time on the road – last week London, this week Monaco, next week China, the week after somewhere else that only his Blackberry knows. After having a chat [...]
Posted: June 20th, 2011 under Whisky.
Tags: charles gordon, grants, john grant, ludo ducrocq, william grant, william grant and sons
Comments: none
One of the bonuses of my new job is that I’m not only able to go along to many of the whisky tastings at the TWE shop in Vinopolis, but I’m half expected to so that we can write up the events on our blog. However, most of the time I’m backup writer and now [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2011 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: airigh nam beist, alligator, ardbeg, corryvreckan, Mickey Heads, supernova, twe, uigeadail, vinopolis, whisky exchange
Comments: 2
This post is in honour of World Gin Day – June 11th (this year coinciding with the Queen’s birthday). Started by Neil of Yet Another Gin, it’s a day to celebrate gin in all of its forms. So, along with tasting some Adnams gin when I popped into the Whisky Exchange shop today (We don’t [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2011 under Cocktails, Gin.
Tags: #wgd, campari, gancia, jared brown, milano torino, negroni, punt e mes, sam galsworthy, sipsmith, vermouth, world gin day
Comments: 1
After much speculation as to when it would happen it seems that The Whisky Squad has now officially run out of whisky to drink from Scotland. For that reason, or the more likely one that there are tasty whiskies made outside of the chilly northern territories of the UK, the month of June is to [...]
Posted: June 9th, 2011 under Tastings, Whisky.
Tags: chichibu, darren rook, ichiro, ichiro akuta, isawa, nikka, the whisky guy, whisky squad
Comments: none
I’m currently up in Scotland touring some distilleries and haven’t managed to keep up on the old blog posting, so it was nice to see today that two other friendly blogs have stepped into help me out by posting about me. A few weeks back me and Whisky Squad bossman Jason B Standing convened at [...]
Posted: June 7th, 2011 under Whisky.
Tags: tiger blood
Comments: 1
