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Campbeltown Malts Festival 2019 Review Part 2

The Springbank Open Day. This was the big one. The only challenge at a time like this really is ascertaining exactly how to achieve everything you want to do, which is effectively the same as dividing by zero. Having been spooked by stories of rabid travellers camping overnight…
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Campbeltown Malts Festival 2019 Review Part 1

Following previous club excursions to Speyside, Auchentoshan, Waterford and Loch Lomond, the Kintynre peninsula beckoned and, well, what better time than festival season? With planning going back nearly a year and a generous hold baggage allowance in tow…
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Visit to Loch Lomond Distillery

This all started at The London whisky Club’s Loch Lomond tasting, hosted by the fascinating and entertaining Ibon Mendiguren who threw out an open invitation to members to contact him and arrange a visit if they were ever up that way – giving him a month’s notice to arrange. Cheekily I immediately piped up and asked if I could come visit…
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Wonderful, wonderful Waterford

I had the absolute delight of a recent trip to the Waterford Distillery in Ireland. Here, everything is about terroir – the land, the soil, the climate and the character of the barley. There’s a real connection to the land, the farmers and the individual fields. There are a handful of Scottish distilleries doing similar interesting work with organic and…
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Ralfy Tasting 2018

It was a weekend in the middle of November, nothing special you might say and nothing to get excited about. However this wasn’t any old weekend, it was a weekend where myself and Jez would get to meet a whole host of really wonderful people from in and around the whisky fabric. It all came about after Jez won a ticket to go to Ralfy’s annual charity tasting…
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Auchentoshan Distillery Tour 2018

In the words of Aqvavitae, this week was a good whisky week. Whisky Show in London on Monday, and then three whisky events up in my hometown of Glasgow including a friend’s whisky night at his house and also getting to meet Roy from Aqvavitae in the Pot Still. But the third thing I managed to do while up for the weekend was to take some time out…
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The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show 2018 – Part 2

It was with a sense of great excitement that I made my way towards my first ever whisky show recently, when I attended the London Whisky Exchange Whisky Show. The day started well, when I met my fellow London Whisky Club members, Conor and Frankie, at the very front of the queue outside the Old Billingsgate venue in London, after Conor had…
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The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show 2018

Saturday 29th September saw the opening of the 2018 Whisky Show, put on by The Whisky Exchange at Old Billingsgate Market in London. A number of our congregation have been in previous years but for me it was a new experience. An Aladdin’s cave of whisky is what I was promised and it certainly didn’t disappoint. Myself and…
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Speyside Tour

One of the goals of The London Whisky Club is to create shared experiences. This is usually through our monthly London meet ups, however on August 14th, four members met in Inverness for a few days of whisky touring. Myself, Jez, Conor and Shiv, stayed in Elgin, in a small picturesque cottage on the banks of the river Lossie. I’ve included a sample…
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