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Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Ardbeg Day
Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Ardbeg Day

Greetings traveller, In this final issue of Tales From The Isle everybody was very much in the mood for the upcoming football extravaganza. You must know about the huge sports…

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Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Bunnahabhain Day
Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Bunnahabhain Day

Greetings traveller, Today we travelled as far north as most ever venture on Islay. In this issue of Tales From The Isle I’ll be telling you why we’ve made this…

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Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Kilchoman & Jura Day
Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Kilchoman & Jura Day

Greetings traveller, In this special issue of Tales From The Isle – available with a choice of two covers – we visit both Kilchoman and Jura distilleries! Which cover will…

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Five New Boutique-ys Including a Bruichladdich
Five New Boutique-ys Including a Bruichladdich

Well these have certainly been a wee while coming, but all good things, etc… Truth is, I’ve sort of forgotten that any other type of whisky other than ‘peated’ exists…

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Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Laphroaig Day & iPed 2014
Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Laphroaig Day & iPed 2014

Greetings traveller, They say that the devil no longer visits Islay, which is why one policeman is sufficient for a population of thousands. We’ll be taking a closer look at…

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Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Caol Ila Day
Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Caol Ila Day

Greetings traveller, Traditionally-rigged tall ships are pretty cool. Ships like the Bessie Ellen, for example, Britain’s last wooden coasting ketch still under sail. These days it’s a regular sight at…

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Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Bruichladdich Day
Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Bruichladdich Day

Greetings traveller, In this issue of Tales From The Isle we travel to Bruichladdich over on the Rinns of Islay. This was good news for us as we’re actually…

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Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Lagavulin Day
Feis Ile 2014, Tales From The Isle – Lagavulin Day

We’ve made it to Islay! In fact, we’ve been here since Thursday (quite keen) but it hasn’t all been plain sailing. Alexandra and I actually missed our ferry, which, as…

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New Product Range: Bitter Bastards
New Product Range: Bitter Bastards

So – cocktail bitters then. The salt, pepper, Worcestershire Sauce and Encona of the Cocktail world. Cocktail seasoning if you will. This new, and tremendously exciting launch sees the phasing-out…

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NEW: Master of Malt 10 Year Old Blended Whisky
NEW: Master of Malt 10 Year Old Blended Whisky

It’s all go over here at the moment and having recently launched the Reference Series, there is another exciting project or two just on the horizon, not to mention some…

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The London Whisky Weekender – A Weekend of Whisky Fun (In London)
The London Whisky Weekender – A Weekend of Whisky Fun (In London)

What are you doing on May 16th to May 18th? If you’ve got plans, cancel them. If you don’t have plans, make some and then cancel them, because the wonderful…

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The Glenlivet Nàdurra Oloroso
The Glenlivet Nàdurra Oloroso

The Glenlivet is one of most popular single malts in the world, selling around 11 million bottles a year (they’re second only to Glenfiddich in terms of overall sales) and…

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The Singleton Whisky Night Market with Tailfire and Sunray
The Singleton Whisky Night Market with Tailfire and Sunray

The Singleton of Dufftown recently launched two new NAS expressions. You may have seen them, they’re the ones named after hot rod car paints fishing flies (in keeping with the…

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Ardbeg Auriverdes – Coming Soon
Ardbeg Auriverdes – Coming Soon

So – it’s that time of year again isn’t it? I checked my calendar the other day, and realised it’s 6 weeks until Feis Ile. 6 weeks. I’ve got no…

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Taste The World’s Rarest, Most-Expensive Whiskies… For Free
Taste The World’s Rarest, Most-Expensive Whiskies… For Free

Imagine a world where you could taste any whisky you wanted, instantly, for free, and in the comfort of your own multi-million-pound caravan-home or luxury yachts-vessel. And just picture yourself,…

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Peaty Whisky Returns To Knockdhu
Peaty Whisky Returns To Knockdhu

Considering that the Knockdhu distillery was founded over 100 years ago in a land brimming with peat, they’ve certainly taken their sweet time bringing out some peated whisky in the…

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