Whisky Party

The latest in whisky news:

• Balvenie is holding a contest. Give them your email and answer a simple question and you could win a bottle of The Balvenie DoubleWood 12 Year Old, The Balvenie Signature 12 Year Old or The Balvenie Single Barrel 15 Year Old.
• Glenfiddich launched an online community – Glenfiddich Explorers. To be perfectly honest, it’s not much of a community – really just a lot of brochure-ware.
• Campbeltown has a new distillery – Glengyle. Get the details on this new cousin of Springbank and Glen Scotia at Whisky Stuff.
• The Scotch Whisky Association is taking steps to prevent Indian single malt whiskies from calling themselves “scotch” whisky.
• Wine and Spirits Daily reports that Americans prefer beer and domestic wine to other forms of alcohol. Only 13% report drinking scotch. We can do better.
• Over at John Hansell’s Malt Advocate blog, discussion continues about the acceptability of serving scotch on the rocks. Lots of good comments.

And the best tasting notes on the web:

• Scotch Hobbyist gets his hands on some Port Askaig 17 year, as well as some Rosebank 17. I’ve got some of that myself this week – look for notes in a few days.
• Whisky for Everyone reviews St. Magdalene 1982 ‘Berry’s Own Selection’. Readers will note that, like Rosebank, St. Magdalene is a now-closed lowland distillery.
• Whisky Fun reports on three rare Springbanks.
• Whisky Notes opens up a bottle of the Robur Reserve from The Glenrothes. This one is only availalbe in Duty Free, look for it next time you travel.

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