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Hey guys, 

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve blogged last, but with good reason: I have been sitting about the office doing absolutely nothing. Actually that’s not what I’ve been doing; in fact it could not be further from the truth….

A large part of my job is obviously, you’ll have seen from previous posts, consumer facing and talking to the public about Islay, Blended Whisky and of course Black Bottle. However another really important part of my job is to talk to the people who are carefully pouring your dram. The people who choose not to work 9 till 5, ensuring that you can wet your whistle into the wee small hours. The same people who know the difference between a Whisky Sours, a Whisky Mac and a Rusty Nail – and know exactly what Whisky to use in each.

I’m talking about bartenders.

The great thing about bartenders is that they want to learn; in fact most of them give up their spare time to go along to find about the products that they are pouring – especially if it is something they are passionate about. Over the coming weeks, I’m going to be meeting a host of bartenders, talking to them about the obvious things like Islay, Bunnahabhain and Black Bottle…..but Black Bottle isn’t just about doing the normal, so we’ve decided to give something back (because we’re the giving kind of people!).  How better to educate people about a blended whisky than giving them the opportunity to understand the craftsmanship that goes into creating an amazing dram like Black Bottle? We’re going to give the guys who come along the chance to blend their own dram; in fact they’ll even be able to take it home in their own labelled bottle. How cool is that???  For once I’m on the wrong side of the bar!

I’m seriously excited about this one; I am hoping we’ll even be able to get a video of some of the best bits up over the coming weeks, so keep an eye out.

Finally for this week, for those of you who live in the West of Scotland, it might be worth starting to listen to Rock Radio 96.3 FM……… you’re are shortly about to be introduced to the Black Bottle Busker…….I’ll tell you more about this next week……

Keep on trucking,

Darroch

P.S I’ve stuck some photo’s of my last sampling @ Retrofest at Louden Castle Theme Park a few weekends ago….yes you can believe your eyes, that is the really is Aswad from the 80′s in the pictures!

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