London Whisky Club

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Daftmill Tasting

An article titled “The Best Whisky Investments in 2019” lists Daftmill next to Diageo’s shelf-clogging “Game of Thrones” collection and Macallan’s marketing-lead Concept series. One of these is not like the other, but for the “investor” they are all likely to share the same fate. At LWC, we know that true value of these bottles is only realised through opening and sharing them…
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Members’ Notes – Jay Chung

Those with zero familiarity with whisky may have a difficult time understanding what I’m about to describe. That’s not because I’m discussing the esoteric details about distillation, specific local barley strains [SB Local Barley…yummmm], or unique cask varieties. Rather, it’s simply because the generosity and kindness in this story I’m about to tell…
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Sherried Whisky

This week saw the 7th meet up of the club and an exciting new venue in Hammersmith. Winter is very much starting to take hold and everyone was in need of some warming up. With that in mind the theme gravitated towards warming sherried drams. As usual the selection didn’t disappoint and we were treated to some fabulous whiskies. Our venue at…
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Club Favourites

On Wednesday 24th October, with the nights starting to draw in and the air turning cooler, the London Whisky Club met for another night of whisky fun. The venue was once again The Bottlescrue Bar in St Pauls and the theme was to be “my favourite bottle”. As usual there was no expectation for people to bring more than one bottle or anything super…
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Independents

Wednesday night saw the 5th meet-up and, as has become a bit of a theme, it was great fun and full of great whisky. The evening was set to be a good one with independent bottlers taking centre stage. It was made even better by the fantastic news that one of our members, a certain Mr Conor Strang, received a job offer the same day to go and be…
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Lowlands and Japan

The 4th meeting took place this Friday and it was another great night. A lighter style was chosen this week, Lowland and Japanese whiskies fitting the bill. Thanks once again to The Bottlescrue for being a great host and looking after us. The food was excellent and would have been worth the cost of attending on it’s own. However when you throw into the…
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World whiskies

Things are looking up for the London Whisky Club. Jason did an absolutely sterling effort in finding us a new venue. The Bottlescrue in St Paul’s. A terrific venue which has a room that is perfect for our needs. Our attendance was nearly the same as the previous week with Jez, Jason, Michael, Conor, Shiv, Frankie and Jason. James sadly couldn’t make it but we…
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Peat

For the second meeting of the London Whisky Club, we were back at Jez’s offices in Putney Bridge. This time, however, we were joined by some new attendees. As well as Jez, Jason, James and Michael we also met Conor Strang, Shiv and Frankie with a late appearance by Jason Fisk. Our numbers had doubled to eight! The theme of the night was Peat…
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And so it begins…

The inaugural meeting of the London Whisky Club took place in Jez Bhatt’s offices at Putney Bridge on Wednesday 23rd May 2018. Attendees were Jez Bhatti, Jason Vaswani, James Hope and Michael Hay. The four of us had all been regular participants in Roy Duff / Aqvavitae’s YouTube live stream chats, and on one chat Jez and Jason suggested having…
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