Richard Paterson
Richard Paterson on July 27th, 2010

While I’ve been away in the US, there’s been some developments with the Shackleton Whisky as the links below will tell you: Towards zero – defrosting the whisky to zero degrees A new home for Shackleton whisky Visitors come from far and wide to see the Shackleton Whisky, including a Whyte & Mackay employee (but [...]

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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 [...]

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Richard Paterson on July 10th, 2010

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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Richard Paterson on July 6th, 2010

We wouldn’t recommend wrapping your new iPhone in Scotch, no matter how good it is or whether it’s a blend or malt. Our IT people tell me that any liquid, whether water, diluting juice or the finest of Scotch whisky, will damage your phone. They should have told me that before I tried it, instead [...]

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Richard Paterson on March 10th, 2010

As I mentioned on Twitter yesterday, I was at a whisky tasting in Wetherspoons last night – at The Counting House, just next to George Square in Glasgow to help celebrate the Wetherspoon Whisky Festival.

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Richard Paterson on March 5th, 2010

At the recent World Whisky Awards, held by Whisky Magazine, the Whyte & Mackay 40 year old (links to buy it here) was awarded Best Scotch Blended Whisky  and Best Scotch Blended 21 Year Old and Over. On the back of the two award wins by the Whyte and Mackay 30 year old - Best Blended Whisky [...]

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Richard Paterson on March 5th, 2010

The marketing lads have asked me to pass this on and it seems like quite  a good one for pub owners in the UK, so I’m all for promoting anything that gets people into pubs (I’m doubly all for something that gets people into pubs and ordering Whyte & Mackay). Anyway, if you run a [...]

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Richard Paterson on March 1st, 2010

A couple of people have asked where else they can find Whyte & Mackay online and in social media, so the social media types here have pulled together a little list for you. And here’s a list of online stores where you can buy Whyte & Mackay globally.

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Richard Paterson on March 1st, 2010

As most of you know, Whyte & Mackay sponsor the PDC darts tournament that’s running just now (we’ve got a Facebook page for it) and the team there are doing a couple of nice giveaways – including tickets for the events, so if you are a darts fan, feel free to head over to Facebook [...]

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admin on February 10th, 2010

To tie in with the launch of the new darts season, Whyte & Mackay whisky have some tickets for Thursday night’s O2 darts in London – anyone want to go? All you have to do is become a fan on the Facebook group and then post a message below there saying who your favourite player [...]

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