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Merchants make their Choice

Award-winning Glengoyne Distillery has challenged some of Scotland’s best known and highly respected independent whisky retailers to select a rare limited edition single cask from the Glengoyne warehouses that they would be proud to name The Scottish Merchants’ Choice. Taking place in Glengoyne distillery’s state-of-the-art Blending Room, the group of six whisky connoisseurs nosed, sampled [...]

GOLD for Glengoyne – second year in a row

Judges of the internationally famed and highly respected Scottish Field Whisky Challenge (SFWC) surprised even themselves this year, by once again awarding Glengoyne 21 Years Old Highland Single Malt Whisky the top accolade of overall 2009  Distillery Bottling of the Year – for the second year in a row. In an unprecedented turn of events, [...]

Ian Macleod takes gold for Glengoyne 21 year old

Edinburgh, 20 November 2008: Ian Macleod Distillers has won Distillery Bottling of the Year for its Glengoyne 21 Year Old in Scottish Field’s annual Whisky Challenge  Final (SFWC). Glengoyne 21 Year Old was chosen in a ‘blind’ tasting by an esteemed panel of nine experts representing a cross section of the whisky community, including Richard [...]

A Double Dram of Success for Glengoyne

Edinburgh, 13 March 2008: Glengoyne Distillery is celebrating a double win in this year’s first round of the prestigious Scottish Field Whisky Challenge (SFWC), with two of its Limited Edition Single Casks taking both first and third place in the battle of the New Scotch Whisky Releases (between November 2007 and March 2008). The Glengoyne [...]

Burnfoot Wins Best Dark Spirit Award

Dumgoyne, 25 February 2008; Glengoyne Burnfoot, the premium luxury whisky has won a ‘Gold Medal and ‘Best Dark Spirit’ Award at the Wine and Spirit Design Awards. Launched in October 2007 at Cannes TFWA by Ian Macleod Distillers, Burnfoot, a travel retail exclusive was praised by Wine and Spirit magazine for “successfully marrying hi-tech and [...]