Loch Lomond
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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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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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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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