Friends and Flippers: A Quick Islay Festival Retrospective and Rant
As I write this I am also writing up a few notes for the bottles we have on tasting at our Islay Festival bottlings events [...]
The Gateshead Whisky News – January 2018
With North-East Correspondent, Lee 'Connas' Connors. First up, Oooooooooooooh Cananananananada......! There's been war on in British Columbia. Long story short - The Scotch Malt Whisky [...]
Asia Vs Scotland – A Review
Possibly one of the most anticipated of 2017 tasting's, certainly amongst the people I spoke to. Asia vs Scotland didn't disappoint at all. The 'blind' [...]
Brora and Port Ellen – A Real Good News Story
Brora and Port Ellen - A Real Good News Story This morning I feel like an overly excited school boy having discovered girls for the [...]
Brand Ambassadors – A Riposte
Much seems to have been written in the whisky press lately about the role and usefulness of brand ambassadors. Most of it has been negative, [...]
My Whisky Lounge – Emily Harris
My first memory of Eddie was meeting him in York at a whisky show back in 2005 during our early team days at Moet Hennessy [...]
Will The Real Brand Ambassadors Please Stand Up?
Consider the title of Brand Ambassador. It sounds pretty important, doesn't it? The title evokes many things. Diplomacy. Subtlety. Deal-making. High-level intrigue. Suavity. Elegance. Smoke [...]
Fruity Fruity Whisky – Billy Abbott
It's easy to tell when my mate Enrico has found a whisky he likes. He's an animated chap at the best of times, prone to [...]
The Fake Whisky News, Part 1 – Tim Forbes
I'll start with an INCREDIBLE piece of Real Whisky News (that you may already know): a very great proportion of what is presented to whisky [...]
My Whisky Lounge – Tim Forbes
I vividly recall my first Whisky Lounge experience. I had travelled by train, hungover, to Brighton on a Saturday morning to help with that fine [...]
