Just look at that! Hello beautiful! Of course we’ll have to wait and see what the implications are for the bottle being on the side like that – has the whisky reached the cork and perhaps partially eroded it? Has the ice and water got inside the whisky? Such mysteries still to find out!
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Last week I was telling you about the whiskies I made for the F1 Force India team. Now, they’re very rare and won’t be on sale in the shops, but here’s a chance to win them by answering one simple question. Just head over to this link and enter before July 17. Good luck!
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As revealed last week, I created three F1 whisky expressions for the Force India driving team, including the only F1 Scot Paul Di Resta. But that got me wondering: what would others taste like? If you could bottle David Coulthard, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Michael Schumacher or Ayrton Senna what would they taste like? It’s [...]
As it’s F1 weekend at Silverstone, it seems like a good excuse to dig out this video of when BBC F1 reporter Lee McKenzie and I got together to discuss how she can educate her fellow F1 types in drinking whisky:
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Down at Silverstone for the F1 for a couple of days to carry out a few things, including a few tastings and catching up with some friends, but also to let the Force India drivers that we sponsor – Scotland’s very own Paul Di Resta (the only F1 Scot at the moment), Adrian Sutil and [...]
I’m on holiday but I’ve got a few things that I better catch up with… had some fun yesterday on Twitter when a #boozemovies hashtag came up. We asked you to come up with some funny entries in return for some whisky and you certainly did! Some of the 500 entries included…
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As I’m sure the UK readers of the blog have noticed, we now have a Government made up of two different parties, having to blend their ideas to work together. Now, having been blending together malt and grain whiskies for the last 40 years, I think it’s fair to say I know a bit about [...]
As some of you know, Whyte & Mackay are sponsors of the ForceIndia F1 racing team. Now ForceIndia recently signed up a Scotsman, Paul Di Resta up as part of the team, so we had Paul drop by the W&M HQ in Glasgow, which also gave BBC ‘s Lee McKenzie an excuse to drop by. [...]
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Just wanted to share the good news that the marketing lads have passed on to me – The Dee Dram has been selling great guns, helping to raise funds for The River Dee Trust.
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Given the recent wins for the Whyte & Mackay 30 year old and 40 year old, you would have to think they were in with a chance if there was an Oscar for whiskies, but for the upcoming Oscars, our US team decided to send out some Dalmore goody bags to those nominated for Best [...]
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