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Whyte & Mackay gets 13% share of Indian whisky market in only five months
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In only 5 months the Whyte & Mackay group have 13 per cent share in India’s single malt whisky sector! I suppose it was inevitable after Whyte & Mackay (W&M) was acquisition for £595 million in 2007 by Indian entrepreneur Vijay Mallya and his United Spirits group. John Beard, chief executive of Whyte & Mackay [...]
English Whiskey
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Its been a century since the English last had a single malt for sale, but recently St. George’s Distillery in Norfolk has started to produce Whiskey in England once more! David Fitt, distiller at St. George’s Distillery in Norfolk, said the brew is already attracting attention north of the border, the Daily Mail reported. This [...]
Drilling for Scotch whiskey In Antarctica
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A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago. The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer [...]
Scotch Whisky Association industry attacks the Scottish National Party over “crazy” campaign for minimum prices
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The Scotsman reports that The Scotch whisky industry also argues that France could become an issue if the SNP presses ahead with its policy on alcohol. France is the second-biggest market for Scotch whisky. Hewitt warns it has its own strong protectionist reasons for instituting a potential copycat ban on minimum pricing for Scotch. Hewitt [...]
Nuke bomb tests can help to identify fake whisky (New Kerala)
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Bottles of vintage whisky can sell for thousands of pounds each, but industry experts claim the market has been flooded with fakes that purport to be several hundred years old but instead contain worthless spirit that was made just a few years ago. Scientists have found, however, that minute levels of radioactive carbon absorbed by [...]
A whisky a day kept Doris OK – for 98 years (Lancashire Evening Post)
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From the Lancashire Evening Post She attributed her long life to a nightly ‘tot’ of whisky – and a passion for singing. Great-gran and former mill-worker Doris Whittle, once of Derby Square, Preston, died at the age of 98 on March 2. They don’t say which Whisky she drank though….. Tweet This Post
Black cherry Jim Beam in production…
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A Fortune Brands Inc. spokeswoman says the U.S. company behind Jim Beam is set to release a black cherry version of the popular bourbon. The unidentified spokeswoman said the new Red Stag product will be worthy of the Jim Beam name, Crain’s Chicago Business said Monday. Sounds interesting../. Tweet This Post
Cut in whisky duty ‘best way to boost Scottish economy’ (Sunday Herald)
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Taken from the Sunday Herald NEW FIGURES from leading economic consultants Gen show that a 2.5% cut in duty on Scotch whisky would generate more than twice as much benefit to the UK economy as last year’s equivalent VAT cut, the Sunday Herald has learned. Scottish government figures suggest the VAT cut resulted in a [...]
SWA not giving up on Glen Breton
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Taken from Examiner The SWA’s legal battles against the Canadian whisky Glen Breton are not over despite several governmental bodies ruling in favor of Glenora Distillers’ use of that name. The SWA contends the name Glen Breton misleads consumers into believing the whisky is distilled and matured in Scotland. A Canadian federal court initially agreed [...]
Paisley Chivas workers give £7,000 to youth football
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Taken from icRenfrewshire WHISKY workers in Paisley have handed £7,000 over to a youth football club charity which is backed by Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson. Chivas Brothers, which has its global HQ in Renfrew Road, donated the cash to Harmony Row Youth Club in Glasgow. As part of the firm’s charity policy, all [...]
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