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Everything You Need To Know About Ballantine’s

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The brand ventured into the flavored Scotch category, with the release of the lime-flavored ‘Brasil’ bottling in 2013. Ensuring the brand’s future supplies, Pernod Ricard built and began operating the Dalmunach distillery in 2015 – which now supplies malt whisky for the brand.

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Edinburgh International Festival Partners With The Macallan For Immersive Opening Experience This August

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EventScotland is proud to be continuing its support of the Festival’s Opening Event , having supported it through our International Programme since its inception in 2015. Paul Bush OBE, VisitScotland Director of Events, finished: “The Edinburgh International Festival is one of Scotland’s key signature events and cultural assets.

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How To Taste Whisky Like A Pro

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When I set about creating Edinburgh Whisky Academy back in 2015, I was hooked on the idea of engaging different industry experts to simplify the complex world of scotch whisky and build an accessible platform to share their credible, unbiased whisky knowledge.

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The Ultimate Guide To The Glendronach 15 Year Old

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Allegedly, Walker wanted to revive age statements originally used by William Teacher & Sons’ blends in the 1960s, but it quickly became an open secret that the age statement bottlings contained considerably older stocks – the peak for The Glendronach 15 Year Old was in 2015, when consumers were actually enjoying a 21 Year Old whisky.

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Scotch Whisky Legends: Springbank 12 Year Old 100 Proof Samaroli

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One of these bottles sold in October 2015 for £3,300 at Whisky Online Auctions. Samaroli bottlings are highly sought-after at auction. This Springbank Samaroli import is very elusive, having sold at auction just five times in the UK, with a huge gap in between sales. In 2018, one came to auction and failed to attract any bids.

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How To Start Your Own Whisky Distillery In Five Steps

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By mid-2015 we had finally raised the money we thought we needed to build Nc’nean Distillery. Step 2: Raise the funds Then followed two years of fundraising – hard graft and a lot of dead ends. Step 3: Build the distillery Annabel Thomas founded Nc’nean with a sustainable vision.

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About The Macallan

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The Macallan Archival Series Folio One was released in 2015 – with only seven folio bottlings released so far. Each Archival Series bottling focuses on a different illustration advert created by advertising director and designer David Holmes, presented in a folio-book style tin with an accompanying booklet.