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One of the Old SNOTS (thanks, Gary) recently discovered that there’s another single malt whisky aficionado group on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. The call themselves The BUMS (Bureau of Malt Sippers) and their website is at http://www.scotch-tasting-bums.com/Welcome.html. Take the time to check out their website and drop them a line with your [...]
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Whisky Magazine’s “Best Whiskies in the World 2010″
In: News
24 May 2010The latest issue of Whisky Magazine has arrived and this issue has their annual World Whiskies Awards for 2010. The judges assembled this year included, as the chairman, Dave Broom, the heir apparent to Michael Jackson as the world’s whisky connoisseur. There were also ten from Europe, five from the US, one from Canada and [...]
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A Night In Honor Of Loch Fyne Whiskies
27 Apr 2010Saturday (24 April) the Old SNOTS gathered for another installment of single malt whisky tasting.
But this was no ordinary evening. The single malt whiskies being tasted were from distilleries the Old SNOTS had not sampled from before, partly due to the fact that they are a little more difficult to find in this part of the [...]
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Whisky Magazine “Icons Of Whisky” Awards
In: News
22 Apr 2010Issue 86 contains the Whisky Magazine’s 2010 Icons of Whisky Awards. There are some surprises, some interesting winners and a disappointment or two. But to the list
Whisky Retailer of the Year (Single Outlet) — Mejiro Tanakaya in Japan
Shortlist — Whiskies of Scotland and Park Avenue Liquors
Whisky Retailer of the Year (Multiple Outlets) — Royal Mile Whiskies in [...]
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On A Mission To Loch Fyne Whiskies
20 Mar 2010On the shores of Loch Fyne on the west coast of Scotland lies a small little village called Inveraray. The website “Undiscovered Scotland” describes it as “built on the site of an earlier fishing village in the mid 1700s by the 3rd Duke of Argyll, Chief of the powerful Clan Campbell. He demolished the original [...]
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- Tags: Loch Fyne Whiskies, Scotland, Whisky
Visit to Talisker
20 Mar 2010Many of you know that I recently visited Scotland and among the goals was visiting three distilleries–Edradour, Ben Nevis, and Talisker–the distillery that produced the recently determined Old SNOTS favorite whisky. I also intended to visit Loch Fyne Whiskies to present them with a signed photograph of the Old SNOTS at a recent gathering and Old [...]
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Technical Difficulties
7 Feb 2010For those of you who know that there are pictures from the last Old SNOTS gathering and from the Burns Night at the Scottish Arms and have been waiting patiently to see them here, this is to assure you they are coming. We’re having some technical difficulties with the webpage. The site administrator is working [...]
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Illegal Haggis
In: News
1 Feb 2010While not strictly whisky related, the following news story from NPR.org as reported on 31 Jan 10 should be of interest to anyone of Scottish heritage or who lifts a wee dram on Robert Burns’ birthday.
It’s still illegal to import haggis from Scotland, despite reports saying otherwise. There’s been a ban on this concoction of [...]
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The Finals
10 Jan 2010We’re now down to the finals. In February, the following eight whiskies will compete in a blind taste testing for the title of The Old SNOTS’ favorite.
Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban
Glenmorangie Lasanta
Balvenie 12 Doublewood
Balvenie 21 Portwood
Tomatin 12
Inchgower 14
Lagavulin 16
Talisker 10
It’ll be an interesting competition for several reasons. Probably the most important is that the members who will [...]
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More Whisky Magazine Awards
17 Oct 2009The December issue of Whisky Magazine contains its 2010 Icons Of Whisky awards and I thought some would be of interest:
Whisky Distiller of the Year — Springbank
Whisky Ambassador of the Year (I wonder if I was in the running) — Gerry Tosh of Highland Park
Young Whisky Ambassador of the Year (No, this is the one I [...]
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SNOTS = Scotch Nosing Or Tasting SocietyA group of men and women from all walks of life and all parts of the globe who, when the situation permits, warrants or demands, succumb to the reverence of Scotland’s most distinctive product—uisghe beatha, water of life, single malt whisky—and firmly of the conviction that “Whisky may not cure the common cold, but it fails more agreeably than most other things.”
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