Comments on: Guest blogger: Stuart Nickerson, Glenglassaugh Distillery

By: Stuart Nickerson

Stuart Nickerson — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:01:30 +0000

We have a lot more information on our new make spirit on the neck tag on the bottle but so far not in colourful language. But this week our 6 month old product will make an appearance and I hope the result will be worth waiting for. Again the information is on the bottle and the neck tag and tells you a bit about the casks used for this maturation.
We have high hopes for this product and would like to see it develop into a brand that is not limited edition, which all of our other products are. However that depends on how well it is received by customers.
Our prices are dictated to a great extent by the limited stock available, the cost which we had to pay for them and the fact that everything is hand bottled on site.
In fact even our new spirit is hand bottled on site as we would prefer to keep the quality under our own control and to create and maintain employment in the area.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:35:12 +0000

Stuart, I was very pleased when I heard that Glenglassaugh was being resurrected. I have enjoyed many older Glenglassaugh expressions, but I have tried only one younger expression, a 12 year old OB bottling that was in the extensive collection at Keene’s steakhouse in NYC. So I am keen to try younger expressions of your whisky as they emerge. And what are your plans for distributing older stocks. Do you have a good selection of these? Good luck on finding a good distributor for the US. You will need to find the balance of a good distribution network and factors that prevent your product from being priced so high for the initial offering that buyers are immediately conditioned to ignore it (Compare and contrast the US launches of Bruichladdich and Glencadam).

Todd

By: John Hansell

John Hansell — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:45:17 +0000

Stuart, there are some great importers here in the U.S. and I am sure most of them would love to sell your whisky. And we would love to be able to purchase them here too!

Hopefully some of them will contact you after reading this blog posting. We wish you all the best with that.

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By: B.J. Reed

B.J. Reed — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:13:29 +0000

Thanks Stuart and please give Graham our best – I wonder when Graham left Glenmorangie for Glenglassaugh if we mights see some experimentation with wood influence on the whisky – I have the 30 YO bottled in 1975 at 45.6 Old Malt Cask and its a very nice dram so will be fun to see what comes about in the next 10 years.

I to am a fan of new make spirit but its very hard to find. I also had fun collecting the Ardbeg’s as they matured up to their 10 YO so that might be something to explore – Come, bring us along with you as you develop the single malt over the years.

Maybe our Omaha based group can stop by when we are in Scotland for our next trip in March of 2010!

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By: Harvey Fry

Harvey Fry — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:19:13 +0000

i’m a big NEW MAKE enthusiast who has for years been advocating the bottling/sale of the stuff as a regular & ongoing product line of as many long established, start-up or reopened distilleries as might have the
cojones to risk taking on the conventional
wisdom that it is by nature an inferior &
vaguely suspicious substance. even though
its fairly recent proliferation in various
forms seems to be driven almost entirely by the considerations of cash flow common
to new outfits (Kilchoman, Tullibardine &
Glenglassaugh, among others), i take great
pleasure in the outbreak! [please see the recent threads on Kilchoman + youth vs.
age, right here on WDJK]

&, though i’ll have to wait a while for
your li’l’ [available both at RMW & TWE]
bottle to get here, i’m already looking
forward to a larger (hopefully a 70cl) &
thus more reasonably priced conveyance.
is the 6 month old scheduled for a general commercial release, what size bottle(s)’ll
it come in & dare i hope that you might
consider a continuing market presence for
the very young make, even after you’ve an
ever increasing supply of the 3 or more year(s)old stuff= after it magically turns into whisky?

BTW, if my memory serves me, both Kilchoman
& Tullibardine have made their pitch in a
far more colorful language than your own.
i think the average consumer is a bit more likely to go for a better description of
what may actually be awaiting him in the
bottle than an extended playing up of the
history of the distillery & all the rigors
of returning it to production. consider,
if you will, if even some of us old hands
are growing a wee weary of the established
practice of selling by myth, travelogue,
play by play of what has long since become
standard production procedure & EVERY
OTHER SCOOBYDOOBYDONE PROJECTION of all that stale-dated-jazz, AS DISTINCT FROM A
SIMPLE STRAIGHTFORWARD ATTEMPT TO TELL US
SOMETHING OF THE PECULIAR NATURE OF YOUR VERY OWN UNIQUE ELIXIR…..if we ancient coots can’t take it anymore, think how far past OFF it’s gonna turn the THIRSTY YOUNG & EAGER TO BE RELIEVED OF HIS COIN CONSUMER
who, because it’s what he gets everywhere else in life, expects AT VERY MINIMUM, to
be bombarded by something in rhythm & tune with his whirlaway lifestyle! hey, if he even gives you a sideways first PEEKTIMES HAVE CHANGED^, you gotta GO WITH
THE FLOW>

& John, i hope you won’t mind me reminding
everyone who TOUCHES DOWN HERE that the previous thread (D & M Scapa + some stuff
about our various whisky clubs) IS STILL
GOING ON AT A BRISK PACE> for that matter,
some of the other MORE MEATY (what do you think of reviewers & the ratings) threads
could stand an occasional RE-VISIT & maybe
even a li’l’ additional stirring^