GLEN SCOTIA TO HOST ITS FIRST GLOBAL WHISKY TASTING LIVE FROM THE CAMPBELTOWN MALTS FESTIVAL
Glen Scotia is asking on whisky followers from world wide to get their tickets to its first dwell international whisky tasting, the World Gathering, happening on the 26th and 27th of Could 2022.
A part of Glen Scotia’s programme of actions at this yr’s Campbeltown Malts Competition (24th-27th Could), the digital tastings are anticipated to welcome individuals from close to and much as they arrive collectively to take pleasure in drams from the award-winning distiller.
Glen Scotia Distillery Supervisor and Grasp Distiller, Iain McAlister, will lead the gathering dwell from the Dunnage Warehouse within the coronary heart of Glen Scotia’s distillery. The primary will happen on Thursday, 26th Could at 5.30pm GMT and the second on Friday, 27th Could at 11am GMT.
By a guided tasting, he’ll discover the profile of 5 Glen Scotia drams within the tasting pack, together with the model’s more and more scarce 25-year-old expression which was just lately named World’s Finest Whisky.
In addition to providing insights into the craftsmanship, profile and flavour of every dram, Iain will probably be taking questions from attendees in-person and people just about world wide. Digital attendees could have the chance to put up questions, be part of polls and turn out to be absolutely immersed within the Competition expertise.
Launched in 2008, the Campbeltown Malts Competition is a three-day celebration of the area often known as the ‘Victorian Whisky Capital of the World’ resulting from its illustrious previous and the function whisky-making has performed within the city for hundreds of years. The occasion can even mark an unbelievable twelve months of achievements for the Glen Scotia distillery after it was awarded ‘Finest in Present’ on the San Francisco World Spirits Awards and later Scottish Distillery of the 12 months in December of final yr. It’s the first time a distillery has achieved each accolades, not to mention in the identical yr.
Friends with out the Malts Competition tasting pack are additionally being inspired to enroll and use their residence inventory to benefit from the dialogue and perception into the distillery that has achieved exceptional international success.
Glen Scotia’s Distillery Supervisor & Grasp Distiller, Iain McAlister, stated, “The Campbeltown Malts Competition marks our favorite second of the yr. It’s the time after we stay up for welcoming guests to the distillery, however we all know there are an ideal many mates and followers world wide that may’t be with us in particular person this yr. I’m excited to carry a bit of the Competition to our international friends and lift a dram with them from afar.”
Glen Scotia tasting pack, £40, is obtainable to buy at: www.glenscotia.com/pages/whisky-festival-2022-live. Every pack incorporates a dram of the core Glen Scotia vary together with the Glen Scotia 25-year-old, Double Cask, Victoriana, 15-year-old and 18-year-old.
Friends can register for the free digital occasion at: www.glenscotia.com/pages/glen-scotia-global-gathering.
About Glen Scotia
Distiller Glen Scotia has been producing single malt whisky in Campbeltown since 1832 and is one in all three surviving distilleries in Campbeltown. The distillery nonetheless maintains a lot of its authentic design, together with the fermenters, the stillroom, and the dunnage warehouse courting from the 1830s.To today, the distillery staff comply with within the footsteps of their founders, utilizing conventional strategies, fastidiously creating the distinctive Campbeltown maritime fashion the model has turn out to be world-famous for.
In 2021, Glen Scotia’s 25-12 months-Previous Single Malt Scotch whisky was awarded ‘Finest In Present Whisky’ on the San Francisco World Spirits Competitors. Over 3,800 entries throughout thirty-one classes have been judged with Glen Scotia being awarded the general winner throughout all nations and types. Along with this, Glen Scotia was additionally named Scottish Whisky Distillery of the 12 months on the Scottish Whisky Awards, an accolade it obtained simply seven months after being topped because the ‘Finest in Present.’
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