South Africans are lucky people. Not only do we live in a beautiful country with a brilliant climate, we are also home to the World’s Best Blended Whisky! Every year Whisky Magazine holds their annual World Whisky Awards which aims to select, award and promote the ‘World’s Best Whiskies’ to both consumers and the trade […]
Grant’s 12 Year Old Launches in South Africa
Grant’s Family Reserve whisky has been available in South Africa for several decades now, so it is only fitting that William Grant and Sons chose our country to be among the first to see the Grant’s 12 Year Old premium blended Scotch whisky on our shelves. The Grant family have been producing whisky for five […]
Bunnahabhain Launches 12, 18 and 25 Year Old Un-chillfiltered Whisky in South Africa
March 9th, 2012 saw the Johannesburg media launch at the Punchinello’s Restaurant in the Montecasino Southern Sun of Bunnahabhain’s un-chillfiltered range of non-peated single malts from Islay. That’s right, I said non-peated whisky from Islay. The most famous whisky island in the world is renowned for the amazing range of peated whiskies that come from […]
The whisky side of the Wade Bales Wine and Malt Whisky Affair
It’s official: November is Whisky Month in Johannesburg! Fellow whisky lovers, we now have a second whisky event to look forward to come mid-November. If you haven’t heard about it yet, its called the Wade Bales Wine and Malt Whisky Affair and will be held at the Montecasino Outdoor Piazza on Thursday 17th and Friday […]
World’s oldest whisky on auction in SA
Two bottles of the world’s oldest whisky on auction at the 2011 FNB Whisky Live Festival All auction proceeds to go to the Foundation for Alcohol Related Research Two 200 ml bottles of the world’s oldest single malt whisky, The Glenlivet 70 Year Old, will not only be making its first appearance in South Africa […]
Three Ships Bourbon Cask Finish Whisky Gets a Facelift
I was browsing through my local bottle store last week, looking for a nice whisky to take home when my eyes fell on a shiny black tin that caught my attention immediately. Then I saw the embossed Three Ships logo. Ah, it was the facelifted Three Ships Bourbon Cask Finish! Now I have a full […]