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EP55 DOUGLAS LAING REGIONAL MALTS - with Stuart Baxter Brand Ambassador

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This week we’re lucky enough to welcome Stuart Baxter, Brand Ambassador of Independent Bottler Douglas Laing onto the show to tell us all about this fascinating brand and guide us through the tasting, and label appreciation of two of their whiskies from their Regional Malts range… The Scallywag and the Rock Island. We also do a small round up of a few notable mentions from this years World Whisky, and Whisky Magazine's Icons of Whisky Awards in our news segment… Boozeround!

Find out more about Douglas Laing and their range over on their website -

https://www.douglaslaing.com

@dlaingwhisky on Instagram and Twitter and douglaslaingwhisky on Facebook -

https://www.instagram.com/dlaingwhisky/

https://twitter.com/DLaingWhisky

https://www.facebook.com/douglaslaingwhisky/

Stuart Baxter is @douglaslaingbaxter on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/douglaslaingbaxter/

If you like the sound of the Douglas Laing whiskies we tasted in this week’s podcast and would like to try them, here are a few options you can purchase from The Whisky Exchange and help out our show in the process…. Just click the links -

Scallywag Speyside Blended Malt Sock Gift Pack -

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/49131/scallywag-speyside-blended-malt-sock-gift-pack

Scallywag Speyside Blended Malt 10 Year Sherry Cask -

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/59518/scallywag-10-year-old-sherry-cask-douglas-laing

Rock Island Blended Malt -

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/50469/rock-island

Rock Island Blended Malt Sherry Limited Edition -

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/55799/rock-island-sherry-limited-edition-douglas-laing

Rock Island Blended Malt 10 Year Old -

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/50991/rock-island-10-year-old

Check out all the winners from the World Whisky Awards here…

http://www.worldwhiskiesawards.com/winner/Whisky/2021/taste

as well as the Icons of Whisky awards here…

https://iconsofwhisky.com/2021/03/25/icons-of-whisky-2021-global-winners-revealed/

And if you would like to try any of the award winning whiskies we mentioned in this week’s Boozeround you can find them here, also helping the podcast in the process…

Westland Distillery Garryana 5 -

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/57188/westland-garryana-2020-release

You can also hear us taste that whiskey as well as chat to the Master Distiller Matt Hofmann in episode 35. https://shows.acast.com/whiskyandthings/episodes/ep35-westland-garryana-5-with-master-distiller-matt-hofmann

Good luck finding the Bimber Oloroso Cask Batch Number 1… but here’s a sample of the wonderful Ex-Bourbon Single Malt Batch 1

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/57637/bimber-ex-bourbon-single-malt-whisky-batch-1

Hear us talk to Matt McKay from within the Bimber Distillery in Episode 27 here https://shows.acast.com/whiskyandthings/episodes/ep27-bimber-distillery-london-single-malt-distillery-tour

Teeling won Best Irish Single Malt with their 28 year old Vintage which sadly is unavailable on the Whisky Exchange at this time, but this one is a good place to start if you’d like to try something else from their range..

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/56420/teeling-1983-37-year-old (or see last week’s notes for the Teeling Single Grain which is wonderful https://shows.acast.com/whiskyandthings/episodes/ep54-teeling-single-grain-irish-whiskey-mike-mccarthy-former )

The Glenallachie 10 year old batch 4, the winner of Best Speyside Single Malt Scotch & Worlds Best Single Malt is also sadly not available at this time, but why not try the 12 year…?

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/43741/glenallachie-12-year-old

You can pick up the fantastic Red Breast 21 Year… Best Irish Pot Still here

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/aff/4431902/p/23246/redbreast-21-year-old

Congratulations to Mark Gillespie of WhiskyCast for winning Communicator of the Year… check out all things WhiskyCast via their website… great podcast, great YouTube streams, great website. https://whiskycast.com

Well done to Nc’Nean Distillery for winning Sustainable Distillery of the Year. We have Annabel Thomas from Nc'Nean Distillery on in a couple of episodes so look out for that. Find out more about them here - https://ncnean.com

…and earn your Clubcard points here.. https://www.tesco.com

We mentioned Greg Dillon of Great Drams a couple of times in this episode, find out more about their whisky here...

https://greatdrams.com

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