Archive for March, 2010
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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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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My Ah Ha Moment by Bill Webster
In: General
20 Mar 2010 I have been volunteering as a tax preparer here in Korea, thus thinking often and at length on why I like Scotch. The quick and the short of it is … I don’t know why, only that I do. The rest of these paragraphs is just me prattling on for a bit.
I don’t [...]
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- Tags: Ah Ha Theory, Old SNOTS, Tasting, Whisky
An Old SNOTS Cask?
In: General
1 Mar 2010Here’s an intriguing idea for the Old SNOTS, or anyone else for that matter. Duncan Taylor, an independent bottler in Scotland, is offering the opportunity to purchase your own quarter cask or octave cask. More details are HERE.
A quarter cask is 150 bottles and an octave cask is 70 bottles. There’s no indication of the [...]
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