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1 –> Business: New exclusive malted service just launched<\/strong> and brings the best of craft whisky and Scottish artisan delicacies straight to your doorstep (and with an entry package at 26.95\u00a3 comprising a full size bottle, this sounds like Heaven right? – wait a few months and I’m sure a complimentary basket of kittens will complete the offer)<\/em>! Craft Whisky Club <\/a>offers two “boxes” to choose from, each month highlighting a special craft procuder with reviews and video interviews on their website (to be found on its Spotlight<\/a> page).\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n 2 –> Great news for the Scotch whisky world, UK sales of Scotch have risen again after five years of decline<\/strong>, according to the Scotch Whisky Association. The industry body said 84.9 million 70cl bottles\u00a0were sold in Britain last year, almost 2pc more than the\u00a083.3 million sold in 2014. \\o\/ (read more)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n 3 –> New opening: After Portland (Also known as the World Hipsters Mecca)<\/em> International Airport had announced it was getting even more boozy with a forthcoming\u00a0House Spirits Distillery retail space and tasting room, Gatwick targets premium gin market with unique on-site distillery and bar<\/strong> : Gatwick\u2019s North Terminal has opened what is believed to be the world\u2019s first on-site airport gin distillery and bar. (read more)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n 4 –> New Release: Diageo is marking the 200th anniversary of its Lagavulin Scotch whisky distillery on Islay with the limited release of an eight-year-old iteration<\/strong>.\u00a0Lagavulin 8 Year Old will be released in two batches during 2016. The first run will be available from this month, with the second expected later in the year. (read more)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n 5 –> Poll: Should Islay Whisky Festival last two weeks in the future? It’s time for you to share your thoughts on this thorny issue! “Having a two week Islay Festival would have many benefits as more people can participate. It would put less pressure on accommodations, restaurants, ferries and other resources. I believe that it could also become a more relaxed festival as right now everything is cramped into one week so it’s extremely busy on the island. Another advantage would be I guess that no activities\/open days would have to be planned on Saturdays as that are usually changeover days” (vote and read more)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 –> Business: New exclusive malted service just launched and brings the best of craft whisky and Scottish artisan delicacies straight to your doorstep (and with an entry package at 26.95\u00a3 comprising a full size bottle, this sounds like Heaven right? – wait a few months and I’m sure a complimentary basket of kittens will complete the offer)! Craft Whisky Club offers two “boxes” …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[434],"tags":[530,531,529,527,528,463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4278,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/4278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"See](\"http:\/\/richardpitkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/divider_gold.png\")
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