Compass Box Tasting – Friday 23^rd May 2014

A Bank Holiday Friday is not the best day to travel North from London along the M1, but this is what our friend Celine Tetu did. After an afternoon in slow traffic she shared with us seven exciting whiskies from The Compass Box Whisky Company.

Sweet Sixteen Tasting – 25^th April 2014

Ok so Richard might not be the sort of guy who you see in Hello Magazine, but to us whisky enthusiasts he is a real celebrity. Richard is the Master Blender for Whyte and MacKay, which makes him not only responsible for the Whyte and MacKay range of blended Scotch Whisky, but also the Single Malt Scotch whiskies from Dalmore and Isle of Jura Distilleries. 

In the depths of winter when the snow flies and the wind howls, when you come in from the cold there’s nothing warms both your body and spirit as much as a Wee Dram, or a large one come to that.

Once again we gather at The Maynard Hotel, Grindleford, to have a whisky tasting in honour of the poor farmers son Robert Burns who was born this day – 25^th January  - 1759  and grew to become Scotland National Bard.  As always there is Poetry, there are toasts, there is Haggis but most of all there is Whisky!!!!!

Around the Isle in 8 Drams  - The Wee Dram Islay Tasting 2013

There is no other drink, or food for that matter, anywhere in the world that so epitomizes the place where it is made as much as Islay whisky. Its rugged uncompromising style is typical of the Island folk who make it, the earthy, peaty flavours are as powerful as the elements which pound its shores, and as for the rough seas that surround this isle, you can actually taste it in the whisky, but despite, or because of this the whisky, the place and the people are beautiful.

Saturday, 19th October 2013 Venue Bakewell Town Hall 25 exhibitors, 300 guests and at least 150 whiskies

George Grant’s Great Glenfarclas     Tasting – October 2013

We were honoured indeed to welcome Mr George Grant whose family have been distilling at Glenfarclas since 1865. John Grant, George’s Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather was a farmer who purchased a neighbouring farm in order to have room to fatten calves before market. It just happened to have a Distillery within it.

Out of all the whiskies we sell I think Japanese is the most misunderstood of all the non-Scottish whisky making nations. Many people see Japanese whisky as a cheap copy of Scotch and talk about it with some scorn

There's nothing better on a warm summers evening than sitting outside and enjoying a Wee Dram of whisky.