A little pro bono advertising for my favourite distillery.

Hi all Geeks! As a proud owner of a piece of distillery land I recently received some great news from Malt Heaven (Laphroaig) . Hereby shared in the form of an extract from the email! /Geek



Dear Geek

www.laphroaig.com.

Robert Hicks, our master blender, decided to do a tasting of various barrels, and chose what he considered the best. As a result, this year's festival offering will be a special 1994 distillery bottling at full cask strength (non chill filtered of course). The good news for those of you who cannot come to the island is that we will put aside some of these bottles so that you can buy them online.

But that is not the only good news. As you know, Laphroaig is often winning awards - indeed, last year, our cask strength was voted 'The Best Single Malt in the World'. You may think it hard to beat that - but we have!
The Clean Sweep!
The San Francisco World Spirits Competition is considered by many to be the toughest and most prestigious of awards. The whiskies are all tasted by the panel of judges 'blind' so that there is no bias. We entered all our 5 main expressions: 30 year, 15 year, 10 year Cask Strength, 10 year and, of course, Quarter Cask. To give it away a little, there is a special award above the usual Bronze, Silver and Gold, known as Double Gold. This is reserved for when a whisky not only wins gold in its class, but is voted first by the whole panel of experts. Now the results:
30 Year old - Double Gold and winner of the of 'The Best Single Malt in the whole show'!
15 Year old - Double Gold!
10 Year old - Cask Strength - Double Gold!
10 Year old - Double Gold!
Quarter Cask - Double Gold!

And ... wait for it ... our distillery (sorry - your distillery!) was voted "Distiller of the Year" - one of the highest honours that can be bestowed on a distillery. We are so proud - as I am sure you are too!