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John McDougall 70th Birthday Anniversary bottling

#11 Top 07-Jul-10 07:41:33

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I will try to keep on buying a cask from you once in a while in order to help raising the money!

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#12 Top 07-Jul-10 08:05:44

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Thanks Michael

I will as always give you my best attentions at all times.

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#13 Top 09-Jul-10 07:23:32

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Had a really good discussion with Jane in her office yesterday, and I believe that we now have the basis of a plan to mave forward very positively on this project..

Quite exciting really !!!!

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#14 Top 10-Jul-10 06:47:29

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The 2 bottlings recipes are almost sorted out in my mind:-

The Vatted Malt (blended malt) will contain whiskies from distilleries with which I have been principally involved and will also contain some whiskies with which distilleries I have been involved but perhaps in a more scondary role.

The Blended whisky proper will be unusual to say the least, and will definitely taste uniquely supreme, I guess. I quite like good blends myself, and I must say that I'm really looking to having pleasure and fun with this one !!!!!!

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#15 Top 24-Jul-10 18:45:34

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Everything is now organised including my head/brain!!
I have secured and purchased all of the whiskies for my 70 Y/O celebration: AN ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE ONCE IN 70 YEARS BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY   

and ANOTHER COMPLETE "ONE OFF" 50 YEARS IN THE TRADE VATTED MALT USING WHISKIES FROM SOME OF THE FANTASTIC DISTILLERIES WITH WHICH I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED.

Now to sort out all of the packaging/presentational issues, and also find the money to pay for everything !!!!!!

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#16 Top 31-Jul-10 07:44:22

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I've been talking to a young student designer about possible label designs for the 70/50 project.
So, now waiting to see his young ideas for an old guy's bithday a yrae tomorrow.
It will be interesting, I'm sure!!!

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#17 Top 16-Aug-10 08:48:54

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Work is continuing on the 70/50 project.
The 70 part being to celebrate m 70th birthday next year will be a Once Only blende Scotch likes of which will never have been produced in the past.
I'm very excited about this one!!

The 50 part being to celebrate my 50 years association within the trade and of course this will be a rather different product. It will be a vatted (blend of) malt and will contain whiskies from many of the excellent malt whisky distilleries with which I have been involved in some capacity including Bladnoch!!!
I am also very excited about this one.

At the very most I guess that these will be limited to 1,000 bottles of each.

Price ? Not OTT, but not yet been settled upon.

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