Richard Paterson
Richard Paterson on July 12th, 2010

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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 June 10th, 2010

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 [...]

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Richard Paterson on April 26th, 2010

RT @THEWHISKYWIRE: @the_nose Dalmore 40 review just added http://bit.ly/bv3mTB #

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Richard Paterson on April 19th, 2010

Major Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space today 1961 in the four and a half ton Vostok 1 which did one single orbit around Earth! #

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Richard Paterson on April 12th, 2010

@Rossmc125 Ross you have great taste! SLAINTE! in reply to Rossmc125 #

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