Richard Paterson
Richard Paterson on January 27th, 2010

Everyone has been touched by what’s happened in Haiti and here at Whyte & Mackay we’d like to do our bit to try and help. To that end, we’ve teamed up with Oxfam to offer a couple of auctions that you can access via ebay. The first is for a full week’s stay on the [...]

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Richard Paterson on December 29th, 2009

New Year is a great time for going out with whisky – it’s one of the traditional drinks used for first footing – and it’s also the time of year when you can jump out in the car and before you know it, someone’s invited you out for a drink. It’s easy done, but that [...]

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Richard Paterson on December 4th, 2009

I’ve already mentioned the offer for staying free at the Jura Lodge if you head over to the Diurachs Facebook page, but I thought I’d show you just how classy the Jura Lodge that you can be staying in is…

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Richard Paterson on December 3rd, 2009

Don’t say I’m not good to you…. Live for free at the Jura Lodge.

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Richard Paterson on December 3rd, 2009

Shackleton’s whisky might be stuck and trapped, but this Master Blender’s still on the move spreading the word of quality whisky! The last few weeks have seen me hardly have time to draw breath inbetween trips to South Africa, America and now India – along with a few stopovers in London for award ceremonies. Anyway, [...]

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Richard Paterson on November 20th, 2009

*(I came, I saw, I tweeted) There’s a story behind this one…

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It feels like I’ve just left but it’s great to be back and this time in San Francisco. Got a busy couple of days ahead of me and hopefully I’ll be able to meet up with a lot of you. Here’s my public movements for the next few days:

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Richard Paterson on October 29th, 2009

Now that was fun. Made some new friends at the Corona Cigars whisky event in Orlando last night, met some people who I knew purely by Twitter (can’t everyone just use their real name for everything? Some of the Twitters names are wild.) What we also did was have some fun with the Daily Buzz [...]

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Richard Paterson on October 13th, 2009

I mentioned earlier that I had been filming down in London for suggested whisky which goes with the festival of light, Diwali. Well, that filming’s now online, so get your taste buds ready…

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Richard Paterson on October 4th, 2009

Whyte and Mackay sponsored India’s first Men’s Fashion Week and as part of it there was a Whyte and Mackay exclusive lounge where numerous celebrities dropped by , including the Royal Challengers Bangalore Captain, Anil Kumble,  accompanied by Bollywood hunk Dino Morea. And can I just say: this has never happened to me. No lady has [...]

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