"The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learnt to like it."
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"Reek ma lane" Night [Southern TWAS] |
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When: |
Monday 8th November, 2010 |
Time: |
6.30 for 7.00pm |
Where: |
Lark Distillery, Hobart |
Address: |
14 Davey Street, Hobart |
Cost: |
$75.00 on the night |
Theme: |
Tasmanian Whisky - the state of play |
| Bookings Are Open! | |
Closed Distilleries Tasting [Northern TWAS] |
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When: |
Friday 6th August, 2010 |
Time: |
6.00pm |
Where: |
Cafe Rossilli, Launceston |
Address: |
41 George Street, Launceston |
Cost: |
$70.00 on the night |
Theme: |
Closed Distillery Tasting!! |
| Bookings Are Closed! | |
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rom the excellent Islay Weblog, it’s been announced that the Ardbeg Ten Years Old has been awarded the ultimate accolade, as World Whisky of the Year. Internationally acclaimed whisky expert, Jim Murray, author of ‘The Whisky Bible’ has furthered the honour by making this the first single malt Scotch winner ever. Ardbeg 10 Years Old is also accorded Scotch Single Malt of the Year at the same time.
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A single rare bottle of George Washington’s Distillery Straight Rye Whiskey signed by former president George H.W. Bush, fetched $35,000 for Historic Mount Vernon’s educational programs at a gala auction on the mansion grounds last night sponsored by the Distilled Spirits Council.
The winning bidder was John R. Frank, Vice Chairman of Sidney Frank Importing Co., Inc. of New Rochelle, NY, whose company imports JÄGERMEISTER and Tommy Bahama Rum, and developed the luxury vodka Grey Goose.
The bottle of George Washington’s Straight Rye whiskey, number five of a limited edition of 24 bottles, was the first ever made at the distillery of one President and signed by another. It was produced on October 21, 2003 on the distillery grounds by a team of master distillers according to the historic recipe found in George Washington’s mansion records, and hand-bottled on September 26, 2006.
“There has been no better way to highlight the rich heritage of distilling in America and to increase cultural acceptance of the industry than by supporting the George Washington’s Distillery,” said Frank.
The Council’s annual heritage dinner on the lawn at Mount Vernon, supported by the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, raised in total over $300,000 to support Mount Vernon’s education programs and was attended by over 700 Washington notables including the Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and over 30 members of Congress.
Separately, the distilled spirits industry has donated over $2.1 million for the archaeology and reconstruction of the first President’s distillery, which is now open to the public from April through October, and is the only site in North America to accurately showcase 18th century distilling techniques. Britain’s Prince Andrew cut the ribbon at the distillery dedication ceremony in the Fall of 2006, where the rare whiskey was first bottled.
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ruichladdich distillery announce the impending arrival of a new Islay single malt “Lochindaal” - to be distilled w/c 26th October.
Lochindaal, the Gaelic Loch na dail means ‘loch of division’, is a large Atlantic sea loch that almost divides the island of Islay in two. The distillery is on it’s shore.
It was also a later name for the Port Charlotte distillery when it closed in 1929, 2 miles further along the shore from Bruichladdich.
Production director Jim McEwan: “As a distiller, I delight in exploring what can be achieved with different barley types and peating levels. It’s what makes me tick.
“Bruichladdich’s success since we took over has been based on stocks of a traditional, negligible peating level. This will remain the basis of Bruichladdich.
“But from day one I also wanted to distil peated barley. Partly in homage to days gone by, but also to provide flavour variety as ingredients for future bottlings.
“Port Charlotte in 2001 and Octomore in 2002 were both new spirits named after long lost distilleries, the ranks of which Bruichladdich itself could so easily have joined.
“There are few distillers that have the freedom that I enjoy to create the various styles of whiskies that we produce. As Progressive Hebridean Distillers, we take our inspiration from the past and make it the future.”
Lochindaal at 50ppm+ will be more heavily peated than the highly successful Port Charlotte but less so than Octomore, the world’s most heavily peated whisky.
The range of new spirit peating levels will now be Bruichladdich unpeated, Port Charlotte 40ppm, Lochindaal 50+ppm and Octomore at 80+ ppm
The first 100 casks of the 2007 distillation only will be offered for sale to the public at £1850 a cask. Cask 1 was purchased by Lotta Pahlsson in Karlskrona, Denmark.
PPM = parts per million, phenols the measurement of peatiness imparted by the drying of barley with peat smoke during the malting process.
