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This just in from Michael Weltz at Park Grill East. They are offering a 30% discount to readers of The Scotch Blog for their Sunday, November 5th Scotch Tasting with Gordon MacPhail. Simply mention The Scotch Blog when making your reservation to receive the discount. This from October 21st: Michael Urquhart and Gordon MacPhail at [...]

Apparently the Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre is changing its name. This news doesn’t come from The SWHC, but from a press release from Nevis Design Consultants, an Edinburgh-based design firm. The new name will apparently be The Scotch Whisky Experience which is a little cheesy for my taste, and doesn’t have the cache of Scotch [...]

And now another installment of our very popular Ask The Collector column in which Sukhinder Singh of The Whisky Exchange answers questions about the value of collectible whisky. The Collector is published on the last Friday of each month, though we generally respond to questions within a day or so (completely dependant upon Sukhinder’s schedule). [...]

Taken at The Pot Still in Glasgow…. More: continued here

If you are in New York for Whisky Fest, and looking for a whisky dinner the night before (Sunday November 5), you have at least two choices I can recommend: St Andrews and Highland Park welcome David Wishart Dr. Wishart, author of Whisky Classified, will host a six course gourmet whisky banquet with Highland Park [...]

Mark Reynier of Bruichladdich took some time to expand on and respond to the issues I raised in the recent story The Laddie – specifically the discussion of whether or not there are simply too many Bruichladdichs in the market. As always, Mark is blunt and to the point. Read on…… More: continued here

Mel G. from Manila, Philippines asks:Dear TSB,Can a whisky distilled and blended in Scotland, but bottled in another country be called a blended Scotch whisky? There is a bit of an anomaly here in Philippines, a 5yo distilled in Scotland, but bottled here is labelled blended Scotch whisky. Your clarification is much appreciated. -Mel… More: [...]

Are you a Harvard Alum who is also a Scotch enthusiast?02138 magazine contacted me and they are looking to write a piece about you.Please contact me, and I’ll put you in touch with them.You’ll be famous…. More: continued here

Whisky School is written by James Thomson (who also is the principal behind LadyBank distillery, and is a Scotch/Internet pioneer who started Scotchwhisky.com as well as the Islay Whisky Society) and Gordon Wright (one of the original investors in Bruichladdich), though James does the bulk of the posts. This is one of the few whisky [...]

This in from Ethan Kelley at the Brandy Library in New York: Kevin,We are still trying to juggle schedules. Here’s what I have so far. Friday before (November 3) Willie Tate from Jura 5-8pm tasting the new 21 year old. Tuesday night (November 7) Martine Nouet will be here pitting Scotch against cognac with Flavien [...]