Springbank Distillers Ltd is delighted to announce the details of our new distribution agreement in the United States of America.
Pacific Edge Wine & Spirits has been appointed our exclusive importer in the US and on June 1st will be commencing the distribution of Springbank Distillers’ iconic single malt whiskies Springbank, Longrow, Hazelburn and Kilkerran. They will also act for our sister company William Cadenhead Ltd’s ever-popular Old Raj Gin.
Calling on our 184 years of experience as whisky producer, Springbank Distillers is sure that Pacific Edge is the right partner for our brands and we look forward to working with them to maintain our sales in the market. We do not anticipate there being problems with supply in any State.
Pacific Edge have already been granted label approvals so it will be worth looking out for limited edition “white label” releases of the core Springbank range commemorating the appointment of Pacific Edge, who will also be the first company to bring the revamped and repackaged Longrow range to the market in late summer 2012.
Pacific Edge can be contacted as follows:
Joel Beth: joel@pacificedgesales.com
Rich Trachtenberg: rich@pacificedgesales.com
Tel: 818-879-0946
Open Day Thursday 24th May 2012 - Official opening 11 AM
Open bottling from 2 single casks
Springbank Masterclasses with Frank McHardy & Gavin McLachlan £20 (including glass)
Glengyle Maturation Masterclass with Ranald Watson £20 (including glass)
Springbank Tasting & Food Pairing in the Tasting Room with Jenny Karlsson £25 (Nips & Nibs & glass)
Cadenhead Tasting in the Tasting Room with Grant Macpherson £20 (including glass)
Tastings in the Warehouse £5 for 5
Free Tours - at arranged times during the day
Farmers Market with Food from Argyll
Tasty Treats from Auntie Mo
Seafood by McMillan Smokehouse
Craft Stalls including:
John Brown Wood Carving, Kintyre Candles, Kintyre Lampwork, Gigha’s Natural skincare, Kintyre Design
Loch Fyne Ales
Music by Local Artistes
From 6.00 pm :
BBQ, Spooks tour, Live music, bar in the marquee
For more information and to book Masterclasses or Cadenhead tasting telephone +44 (0) 1586 555494 or e mail info@springbankwhisky.com
Due to technical issues with the website if you wish to place online orders we would ask you to telephone our whisky shop - Cadenhead Whisky Shop, Campbeltown on 01586 551710 option 1. We apologise for any inconvenience
SPRINGBANK WHISKY SCHOOL 2012
The dates for the next Springbank Whisky School have now been set.
Next year the Springbank Whisky School will run for 10 weeks, in terms of one week each, from week commencing 16th April with the final term being week commencing 18th June
If you would like a registration form and further information please contact whiskyschool@springbankwhisky.com
Regards
Janet Blair
for Springbank Whisky
This year's festival runs from 18th - 21st August and is set to be a fabulous week end with music and entertainment galore.
Mitchell's Glengyle is once again happy to sponsor the Dalriada Connections Concert on Sunday 21st in the Heritage Centre.
For more info on what's happening where and to buy tickets go to www.ticketweb.co.uk or mokfest@hotmail.co.uk or www.mokfest.com You can either telephone 08444 771 000 or the Tourist Inf Office on 01586 552056
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This year sees the first Society Golf Open at Machrihanish Dunes Golf Club on Friday 20th May. It will be an 8.30 am Shotgun Start. The Machrihanish Dunes are providing coffee and bacon rolls before tee off, a fabulous round of golf followed by a reception with buffet lunch and presentation of prizes. The cost of the golf with lunch etc is £64 per person. To book this wonderful day please contact laura@machdunes.com or you can contact me and I will pass your details on.
The golf open is not restricted to Society Members.
We are hoping to make this an annual event if it proves to be a popular day out.
Thursday 19th May is the date for this year’s open day. We will have two single casks to bottle on the day, I will get more information on the casks very soon. We will of course have Masterclasses with Frank, Gavin and Peter. The cost this year for the Masterclasses will be £15 and will include a glass.
Tastings in the Warehouse will also be part of the open day, at a cost of £5
which will include a discount voucher for Cadenhead Whisky Shop.
At set times throughout the day there will be free distillery tours for people who do not wish to participate in the Masterclasses.
Grant is again hosting a Cadenhead Tasting in the Tasting Room in the afternoon. The cost of tickets will be £20 and places will be limited.
We will also have food from Auntie Mo, Food from Argyll, Seafood from McMillan Smokehouse. A bar will be provided by Fyne Ales who will be joining us for the first time with some of their fine ales (of course).
John Brown will be there with his wood carvings - some nice new creations this year from John. The Blacksmith’s Shop is setting up a stall to show off some of their metal art work and hopefully they will also bring along a wood burning stove that we can gather round if it’s cold. Various other craft stalls will also be there.
Gavin’s team will be preparing some half casks for sale as garden tubs, they also have some cask ends - do you fancy having your date of birth stencilled on one of these?
Music will be provided by local artistes.
We thought that this year we would have a BBQ and a tiny wee bonfire at about 6.30 pm, with maybe a Spooks tour round the warehouses. I know it will not be dark but we won’t put the lights on so that you get really frightened. I believe there are lots of spiders in the warehouses away at the back in the dark bits so I won’t be going in there!!!
Fyne Ales have agreed to stay with us for the BBQ at night and hopefully we will have some music too - maybe a piper in the warehouse to add to the atmosphere. If you’re lucky you might even see some of the angels.
If you would like to book Masterclasses or the Cadenhead Tasting, let me know.
Craft Distillers support Japan
A group of independent Scottish Distilleries have agreed to collaborate to produce a unique whisky and donate all proceeds to the disaster relief effort in Japan.
Each of the seven distilleries, representing the best craft producers in the Scotch whisky business, will donate a cask of their single malt that will be expertly blended to create a limited edition whisky, appropriately called the Spirit of Unity, which will never be produced again.
The connections between the malt whisky industry and Japan are strong as few consumers are as passionate about malt whisky as the Japanese and it has been a major export market for many years.
The idea came from Euan Michell, managing director of Isle of Arran Distillers. Mitchell explained: “Many in our industry, like me, travel regularly to Japan and have made friends and contacts with Japanese whisky enthusiasts.
“On seeing the scale and horror of the problems they are facing we were moved to help and other craft distillers immediately came onboard.”
The distillers are Arran, BenRiach, Bladnoch, GlenDronach, Mitchell’s Glengyle, Kilchoman and Springbank. Each of them is a multiple award-winning independent business. They have never collaborated in this way and are never likely to again.
The combined contribution will produce approximately 2,000 bottles with 1,200 available in the UK. The remainder will be shipped to Japan with some being donated for sale in New Zealand to assist with relief in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake. It is expected that the release will be oversubscribed as soon as it is made available.
With the support of suppliers and partners, including retailers, a conservative estimate is that at least £50,000 will be donated to the relief effort.
Independent whisky expert David Broom comments “"This is a marvellous and compassionate response to the dreadful tragedy which has befallen Japan and is a beautifully symbolic gesture of how the craft distillers of Scotland are working together to help their friends in that country.
"What's more, with the pedigree of the distilleries involved I know that this will be a superb whisky. Nothing like this has been produced before and whisky lovers around the world will be clamouring to own and taste this one-off bottling. In doing so, they will be helping aid the Japanese people."
Dave Broom, editor-in-chief, Whisky Magazine Japan
For whisky fans the leading producers each represent acclaimed malt whisky regions in Islands, Speyside, Highland, Islay, Campbeltown and Lowland.
The producers will offer the limited bottling available through two leading online whisky retailers; Royal Mile Whiskies and Loch Fyne Whiskies, and in their respective shops in Edinburgh & London and Inveraray
Not a penny of profit will be taken from the project by any of the parties involved with the packaging being donated free of charge by Chesapeake Branded Packaging. The Spirit of Unity will be available in store and for despatch by the end of April with details being posted on the websites of the distillers. Pre-orders at £59 per bottle (+p&p) are now being taken at www.royalmilewhiskies.com and www.LFW.co.uk
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Our UK salesman, Iain Scott is going to be very busy over the next few months with tastings up and down the country. Here is a list of where he will be, I'm sure he will be delighted to see lots of you at any of them - or all of them!!
Wed. 30 March SMWS 19 Grenville Street, London 7pm Springbank Tasting
Sat. April 9 Inverness Whisky Festival, Bogbain Farm .3 miles south of Inverness
Wed. 13 April Glasgow Whisky Club at Iron Horse Pub, 115 West Nile St. Glasgow at 7.30 pm Tel: 0141 332 2215 or contact Julie Hamilton at julshamilton@gmail.com
Thurs. April 14 Bradgate Wines hosting Springbank Tasting at 106 Castle Street, Hinkley, Leicester 7.30 pm. Tel. Martina Payne 07702601706 for more info
Fri. April 15 Nicholls & Perks, Stourbridge Tel. David 01384 394518 for further info
Wed. April 20 Curly Coo Bar 47 High Street Crieff at 8.00 pm. For more info Tel. Mandy 078566 12266
Mon. 2 May Tams Drams hosting a tasting at Bon Accord Pub, Charing Cross, Glasgow at 7.00 pm. Tel. Tams Drams on 0141 334 3280 or e mail tamgardiner@hotmail.com
Sat. 7 May Whisky Lounge Festival, Newcastle from 12 noon until 5.00 pm e mail thewhiskylounge.com
Sat. 4 June Robbies Drams Ayr Whisky show - for info see www.robbiesdrams.com
Sun 3 July Helensburgh Whisky Festival see www.clydewhiskies.co.uk or Tel. 0143 6673816
Sat 16 July & Sun 17 July Oban Whisky Festival
Sat 17 Sept Curly Coo Whisky Festival at the Curly Coo Bar 47 High Street Crieff from 12 noon until 6.00 pm
Sat 24 Sept Midlands Whisky Festival. 11 am till 5.30 pm, for tickets and details see www.whiskyfest.co.uk
If you would like any further info please let me know and I will get in touch with Iain.
Janet
We recently had a visit from David Driscoll of K & L Wine Merchants who had an "awesome time" at Springbank. Peter Currie gave him the tour which you can read about in his blog if you follow this link: http://spiritsjournal.klwines.com/klwines-spirits-blog/2011/3/24/scotland-day-three-springbank.html
Janet :)
