In an earlier post Give Yourself an Early Xmas Present we told you about an offer of a free bottle of whisky for anyone taking out a membership with the Scottish Malt Whisky Society through this blog. The particular whisky has now sold out but the SMWS have replaced it with another from the same [...]
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Give yourself an early Xmas present
November 24th, 2010 
Bill Get a free bottle of single malt when you take out a SMWS membership via us. As I indicated at the end of the last post we had a pleasant surprise towards the end of the SMWS tasting – an extra three drams to consider and a generous offer to pass on to our readers. [...]
Nov 2010 tasting at SMWS
November 14th, 2010 Bill It’s been a busy last few months for both Mike and me; Mike has moved to a new job and got married, while I have bought and moved into a new house and my mum died a few weeks ago, so neither of us have had time to blog until now, with the latest of [...]
SMWS February Tasting – Olaf excels himself with 5 fascinating single malts
February 12th, 2010 Bill Hardly seems any time at all since the last Scotch Malt Whisky Society tasting at Queen St. but here we are again. Sadly Mike got sent off to London on business at the last minute – he missed at least two cracking malts. Now before we go any further I’m going to talk about naming, [...]
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Tags: Caol Ila, Glenfarclas, Glenkinchy, Glenugie, SMWS, Tormore 
No Comments »SMWS November tasting (part 2)
November 8th, 2009 Bill Continuing the tasting notes we come to the third (not counting the bonus one) of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s offerings. Bottling 35.32 34 years old, 55.1%, 183 bottles Colour Light Nose Pear drops, liquorice, someone mentioned spangles – a real blast from the past. I immediately started to feel that this one would not [...]
SMWS November tasting (part 1)
November 7th, 2009 Bill On Thursday Mike and I met up at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s rooms in Edinburgh’s Queen St for their second tasting for whisky bloggers. This matched up with their quarterly release of new bottlings – always a major event for their members. Our fellow bloggers were a mix of familiar faces and new, and [...]