I was obviously delighted to see Kate return from the Whisky Show in London, mainly, I have to admit because I knew she was bringing me a copy of Billy Abbot’s new book The Philosophy of Whisky. I also knew that as Kate had just returned from a “hard” weekend’s work in London she would […]
11 years ago today I hosted a tasting for Mike Lord at the Whisky Shop Dufftown’s festival where I matched an old Port Dundas with pickled onion Monster Munch. I imagine that I’m the only person in the world to have done this. There’s two reasons why I did this; firstly Port Dundas has alway […]
We are delighted to be attending The Whisky Shop Dufftown’s Whisky Colours Festival this year – make sure and check it out, the Dufftown festivals are always fun so we’re very much looking forward to returning to our old haunt! The Whisky Colours festival is running from the 8th to the 10th of October and […]
On Friday we launched our first ever Local Edition – a bottling that is exclusively available to buy in Campbeltown – hence the Local Edition name. For our first Local Edition we actually managed to bottle a local whisky as well! (Well technically more than one as it is a 7yo Campbeltown blended malt so […]
With the latest release I was delighted to make a small but significant change to our labels. They now rightly state that the whisky or rum was “Selected By Mark and Kate Watt” and not just by me. It took a bit of convincing to get Kate to put her name on the label, but […]
We are very excited that bottling of our new release is now completed and will start making its way to all our lovely customers next week. We don’t have any product shots yet (bottles haven’t arrived in Campbeltown yet!) but we’ll be sure to post some photos on our Facebook and Instagram pages as soon […]
We had hoped to see you all in Campbeltown this year for our first ever Watt Whisky & Friends Festival however, given the ongoing uncertainty with Covid, like many others we have decided to go Virtual this year. We have a range of events lined up – some hosted by us and others by some […]
Today is International Whisky Day – a day set up in honour of the late great Michael Jackson, the original beer and whisky writer – so I thought it was a good time to share some of my memories of him. I was fortunate enough to meet Michael several times and on occasion I […]
We are huge fans of transparency and of Japan and Japanese whisky so were delighted to read the news this morning (on Whisky Fun, where else?) that the Japan Spirits & Liqueurs Makers Association (JLSMA) has announced new labelling standards for Japanese whisky, meaning that if whisky is labelled as being Japanese it actually has […]
Yes, you read that right. We don’t bottle at cask strength. Looking at the strengths we bottled our first two releases at you’d be forgiven for thinking we did, but we don’t. Allow me to explain. According to the SWA; “The term ‘Cask Strength’ should not be used on labels unless the product is bottled […]
