http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog Find a new favourite whisky Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:37:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last month the great people at Glenfiddich chose their new selection of vintage reserves. The selection process this year began with one of the industry’s most experienced Malt Masters, David Stewart, choosing a shortlist of six casks, three from 1975 and three from 1977. Then an illustrious international selection panel ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2008/07/08/new-glenfiddich-vintage-reserves-selected/ Next week in whisky, after their phenomenal success last year our friends at Laphroaig are holding Laphroaig Live 2008. This year boasts John Campbell and Robert Hicks being joined by leading Whisky writer Martine Nouet. They plan take viewers through a range of well known Laphroaig expressions aswell as a ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2008/06/13/laphroaig-live-2008/ Denis from [CigarInspector.com](http://www.cigarinspector.com) got in touch with me last week and offered to write a piece about what to drink with a cigar. Cigar Inspector features detailed and illustrated reviews of both Cuban and non-Cuban cigars and Denis certainly knows his stuff when it comes to cigars. I was really ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2008/01/28/what-to-drink-with-a-cigar/ Bowmore contacted us to say that to go along with the release of the oldest ever expression of **Black Bowmore**, they are running a prize draw to win a bottle (worth £2000!). Each of the 827 bottles have come from a single cask filled on the 5th of November 1964 and ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2008/01/24/black-bowmore-win-a-bottle-worth-2000/ It's been a while since I wrote anything here - sorry about that. The day job's been a bit manic! I received an email from someone at Laphroaig about a cool-sounding event they are running this evening. Apologies for the late notice, but if you're free at 8pm tonight (and not ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2007/11/21/laphroaig-live-tasting-online/ I forgot to write about a whisky-tasting I helped run in Oxford that was organised by my good friend Graeme Coates ([Astronomer extraordinaire](http://www.chromosphere.co.uk/)) as a fund-raiser for his cricket club. We had some great whiskies. I've probably forgotten some, but here's what I remember: - A regular Glenkinchie (nice soft start) - Tesco's ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2007/04/04/whisky-tasting-event-and-a-shout-out/ It was Distilled's 2nd Birthday on Friday, so to celebrate we had some champagne from a friend of ours at Drinks of France, some cake, some silly food and party hats.. We were given a Business birthday present of a bottle of Bowmore 12 Yr old - along with some very ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2007/03/27/whisky-makes-a-great-birthday-present/ A Client of our web design company has just purchased one of our whisky presents. We have a bit of a contra deal whereby Richard Denny, provides us with sales and marketing training, and we help them promote their new website. To get a better view of the sort of ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2007/01/22/whisky-makes-a-great-present-for-a-client/ OK, it's still more than a week away, but have you thought about your whisky choice for the 25th? Your Burns night whisky is one of the more important drink choices of your year (probably right up there with your Hogmanay whisky). Now this year, unfortunately we have to make do ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2007/01/15/burns-night-whisky/ On Saturday, my girlfriend and I went to [Croydon Cats Protection](http://www.btinternet.com/~cpl.croydon/) and got a little tabby cat. She's about 3 (we'd have loved a kitten but we're not home enough to look after a kitten properly) and she's called Islay Isla! A real whisky cat... I'll try to get a picture ... http://www.whiskytag.co.uk/blog/2007/01/08/ive-got-a-whisky-cat/