Today we are adding some more independent bottlings to our winter sale. We like to add these in batches of 10 as it is our 10th birthday this year. In fact in less than a week. We did not want to leave Cadenheads or Compass Box out so we have teamed them up for the next part of our sale. They are all 20% off as we are entering our second 10 years (10 x 2 get it?). OK but it is still a good offer.
We will be adding groups of independent bottlings to our sale. Up to 10 expressions each time with 20% off celebrating our 10th birthday and going into our second 10 years.
First of it is Adelphi as it begins with 'a'. Here are the 10:-
This Newsletter focuses on our New Year sale. It is well underway and we are adding more and more products to it as the days go by. We gave our Newsletter followers a heads up about this yesterday when we put the sale on line so a bit of stock has gone already.
WSD Exclusives
We will have 10% off our own bottlings until the end of February. They are:-
Both are fabulous examples of the cask used for their maturation. The Glenfarclas is an intense and rounded ex-sherry cask whisky and the Mannochmore is a wonderful example of a tropical fruit ex-Bourbon cask.
UK Exclusives
We had a bit of a rush to the head a few days ago and put 20% off 3 bottlings exclusive to the UK (2 Glendronach and 1 Benriach). These are in very short supply.
The Benriach is a classic unpeated style from the distillery and the GlenDronachs are both sherry casks. At these price they are a real bargain. Of course we will ship these UK exclusives anywhere in the world (almost).
Vintage Sale
We are just over 2 weeks away from our 10 birthday and we are feeling a bit nostalgic. We have hunted around the shop for some old whiskies to take 20% off to give you the chance of trying something old and rare. These sale items are new on this morning. They are all G&M bottlings.
We have finalised our programme and will have it on our website around midday on Saturday 23 January. We have agreed with the festival to only sell tickets on their website going forward.
We are getting very excited here at The WSD HQ. It is now just 60 days until our 10th birthday!!! But why wait 60 days to start celebrating? So we have put own current 2 exclusive bottles on sale with 10% off. That's a festive present just crying out to be bought!!!!
Yes, it is the return of our most complicated titled sale!!!! Now in its second year. We have again selected 25 fine whiskies across the price spectrum to entice you to buy a little seasonal cheer at a knock down price.
We have launched the next phase of our Winter Sale with 15 products with £5 off or more (well now there's 16). This has nothing to do with Black Friday as they last until the end of the year! These offers are available on-line and in our shop and cover some very drinkable whiskies and at now even more affordable prices. Offer ends 1st Jan & whilst stocks last.
Stuck for that whisky lover's Christmas present? Looking for inspiration for a gift for a funky t-shirt fan? Want to make a political statement? And support a worthy cause? Then this is your answer - The Dufftown Whisky Region T-Shirt! Only available from The Whisky Shop Dufftown in sizes from Small to 3XL. Here is the T-Shirt in it's full glory:
We solved our modelling problem (none of us wanted to do it) by bringing in a professional and friend of the shop Yolanda. I think that this is a better pose than we could have struck.
Click here for our full range of clothing. We have teamed up with Yolanda to raise money for Scottish Association for Mental Heath in 2016. We will be donating £1 from the sale of every t-shirt sold as part of our fund raising campaign.
We aim to raise a £1000 for this charity in the next 12 months. If you would like to help us straight away then please go to our donations page.
We also wish Yolonda all the best in the Miss Galaxy Competition where is is representing Moray.
There is the count down to Christmas. The count down to the New Year. Here at The Whisky Shop Dufftown we have another more important one. It is only 86 days until we are 10 years old!
6 February 2006 was when Mike bought the shop and created The Whisky Shop Dufftown. Things have changed a lot in those 10 years and there will be a few more changes before our birthday. We have come a very long way. Here are just a few of the changes:
We have increased the shelf space by 50%.
We painted over the tobacco-smoke-stained ceiling.
The value of stock is now over 20 times greater than back in 2006.
We got rid of the peg board partitions.
We have more than doubled the number of whiskies available.
We got rid of the fake grapes and plastic vines.
We gave the shop a distinctive logo and colour scheme.
The list goes on....
We have big plans to celebrate our 10th birthday. We will be having special events during Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival 2016 and our own Whisky Shop Dufftown Autumn Festival.
We will also have a set of products to mark the occasion. Obviously we will have our own exclusive whisky which will be bottled in the week before our birthday so it will be ready for our birthday. We may even have another one to mark our 11th Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival. There will be the obligatory Glencairn Blenders glass. Still the most practical way to enjoy your dram. But there will also be a few surprises.
Each one of our celebration products will be connected with a characteristic that we (mainly Mike) has had to display to make it through our first 10 years. Don't worry we are also making plans for the future and in January we will be filling a cask at Ardnamurchan Distillery which will be ready for our 20th birthday (we hope).
The first item is now available. It is a fabulously creative T-Shirt from Whisky Impressions and sports our anniversary logo in the centre. It also promotes Dufftown as a whisky region in its own right. It should be worn with pride. Please note this T-Shirt should not be used as an actual map. View our range here.
At each Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival we run a competition for Independent Bottlers to find the best expression they have released during the first half of the year. We of course have an award for the best Speyside Whisky but we like to acknowledge that other whiskies are available so we also have a category for The Rest of Whisky. Voting is carried out by guests of the festival who visit The Whisky Shop Dufftown and take part in an informal do-it-yourself tasting.
Over the past few weeks we have been lucky enough to be able to hand the trophy quaichs to members of each of the winning companies.
A great win for a grain whisky from Douglas Laing. Another inspired choice from them in this category.
Graeme Dunnett from Douglas Laing was at The Whisky Shop Dufftown Autumn Festival at the end of September this year and we took that opportunity to hand over the Quaich.
