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Do you have a whisky resolution for the New Year?

Are you finally going to make that trip to Scotland to tour distilleries? Or perhaps tour Kentucky bourbon distilleries? Maybe you’re going to finally open that special bottle of whisky you’ve been letting collect dust on your shelf. Or maybe you vo…

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Five very young Caol Ilas

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Two Bowmores

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Hello world

This will be last years post and want to share so sta­tis­tics from chwisgi.com for this year. As the site started in sep­tem­ber it’s really for a few months but I’m still impressed.

Here are the top countries

1. Swe­den
2. United States
3. United King­dom
4. Canada
5. Nether­lands
6. Ger­many
7. France
8. Nor­way
9. Fin­land
10. Belgium

Most vis­ited content

1. / (front­page)
2. /why/
3. /category/single-malt/
4. /2008/09/16/hooray-first-release/
5. /distillery/mackmyra-distillery/
6  /2008/10/review-george-t-stagg-2008-release/
7. /people/admin/
8. /single-malt/glenglassaugh-34yo-1973/
9. /single-malt/auchentoshan-21-years/
10. /distillery/glenglassaugh-distillery/

Exter­nal searches (google)

1. bruich­lad­dish
2. chwisgi bal­ve­nie
3. george t stagg 2008
4. caol ila 25 year review
5. glen gar­i­och wikipedia
6. bal­ve­nie
7. chwisgi
8. chwisgi whisky
9. auchen­toshan
10. glen­glas­saugh distillery

Inter­nal searches

1. lagavulin
2. Clynel­ish
3. Glen­tur­ret
4. Laphroaig
5. whisky
6. “royal brackla” nairn
7. 18
8. 1995
9. Aber­lour a’bunadh
10. Auchentoshan

The peo­ple came from

1. binero.se
2. forum.whiskyforum.se
3. peatfreak.com
4. jedisthlm.com
5. facebook.com
6. flickr.com
7. google.com
8. pownce.com (closed)
9. minhembio.com
10. wordpress.org

So thank you every­one from Stock­holm, Lon­don, Solna, New York, Gote­borg, Toronto, Sundsvall, San Fran­cisco, Soli­hull, Van­cou­ver, Edin­burgh, Glas­gow, Cal­gary, Eto­bi­coke, Helsinki, Ams­ter­dam for mak­ing 2008 a great whisky year.

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New whiskies (and more) from GlenDronach

The new owners of Glendronach (they are spelling it GlenDronach) will be introducing a new line of whiskies which will include 12, 15, 18 year old and other expressions this coming March, in addition to to other enhancements to the distillery. Here’s the pr…

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Two old Tomatins

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Glendronach plans for the future.

GLENDRONACH DISTILLERY DEFIES DOWNTURN WITH £250,000 DEVELOPMENT Work starts today (Monday December 29, 2008) on a £250,000 development of the GlenDronach malt whisky brand. The Aberdeenshire distillery, one of Scotland’s oldest, was bought earlie…

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Scapa comes of age — again.

For the second time in under five years Scapa Distillery willbe changing the age of their standard malt. In 2004 (when the distillery was refurbished) the age went from 12 to 14 years old. Now a 16 year old is making it’s way onto the market, replacing the 14 yea
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Laphroaig Triple Wood

As previously said the Laphroaig Triple Wood would make it’s entry on the Duty-Free market this autum/winter. 200 bottles is rumored to be sold to Friends of Laphroaig before the official release, but I haven’t seen them materialize yet. The 1-litr
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WhiskyCast Episode 179: December 27, 2009

Marko Karakasevic is the latest in a long family line of distillers, and like many other sons who go into the family business, his goal is to out-do his father. Marko's taking an unusual tack with whisky at his family's Charbay Distillery in California's Napa Valle…

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