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Islay Whisky Girls - Team Laphroaig Today, Team Laphroaig are: (L to R), (DMK) Danielle McKerrell – VC Assistant/Administrator, (VS) Vicky Stevens – VC Manager, (CM) Caroline Morris – Distillery Administrator, (SJ) Sherylyn Jackson – VC...

#IslayWhiskyGirls Florence Grey

Islay Whisky Girls - Florence Grey Florence Grey, is our humorous, cultural, dynamic, unforgettable, dram enjoying, Madam Chairwoman of Feis le voluntary committee.What is Feis le ? (or The Islay Whisky Festival)It is Festival of Music and Malt, which started 30 years...

Tour Of Buckie Maltings

Tour of Buckie Maltings Boortmalt, Buckiedon’t do tours… but if they did……..Their motto is reminiscent of Henry Ford’s ~ you can have any variety of barley you wish, as long as it’s Concerto…They malt 58,000 tonnes of barley a...

Bowmore Oloroso Self Fill 54% 13 YO

Tasting notes: Bowmore Oloroso Hand Fill 13-year-old Wednesday 6th April 2016. Blustery, blue sky day with showers and wind from the West.Today, I tasted Bowmore’s self-fill cask. It is 13 YO 54% abv. abv means ‘alcohol by volume’.This means there is...

Whisky Marketing is so off piste..d

Whisky Marketing is so off piste...d There are two types of people, Buyers & Drinkers. They are emphatically NOT the same thing ~ although, like a good conundrum, they CAN be the same thing!The marketing demographic for the new whisky drinker is the 28 year old,...