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.
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 at [...]
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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 pub, [...]
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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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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 [...]
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 is/was… [...]
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It’s not something you’ll see me do lots of, but at the same time, I have been known to have a wee game of darts from time to time (I can’t make whisky all the time!) – a few people caught me the other day playing after we had signed Paul Di Resta for the [...]
You may have read the original blog post that sparked global interest or listened to the podcasts about two crates of whisky at the South Pole. Well, it’s been a long and difficult task for the dedicated team from the Antartic Heritage Trust, but they’ve managed to remove the crates from the ice.
But there was a [...]
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I announced the Jura and Whyte and Mackay eBay auctions for Haiti we are doing with Oxfam yesterday, but I’m just off the phone with Jura Master Distiller Willie Tait and he’s told me that whoever wins the stay on Jura will also get a personal distilling Master Class on Jura, complete with tastings. I [...]
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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 Jura [...]
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