Fame at last.

“George? …who’s George”…please get in touch, George. George kindly sent Paul O’Grady a mini Sheep Dip and a mini Pigs Nose explaining that his friend on Skye put his longevity down to a Pigs Nose each morning and a Sheep Dip each night …. please try this at home

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Don’t try this at home.

Brian McGregor, head of Art at new, hot, Edinburgh creative consultancy mightysmall sent me the above illustration.
It’s has been suggested that the daring young chap on this cover, from a 1950’s French farming magazine, is non-other than a young Alex Nicol.
The truth of this, I couldn’t possibly say, but I suppose the only way [...]

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Alex in New York.

I’ve just returned from a somewhat exhausting, but very enjoyable, 10 day ‘meet-greet-press-the-flesh’ trip to New York.
Meeting up with our esteemed distributors Admiral Imports, a huge round of retailers and engaging in some very interesting brand introductions and tastings.
Not least of which was the Malt Advocate’s amazing WhiskyFest, on Tuesday 30th of Oct, held in [...]

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Bad-Vertising:

‘Badvertising’ is the category Kevin over at the Scotch Blog puts this new campaign from Canadian Club into.
His post is well worth a read, as are some of the hilarious, ‘helpful suggestions’ for additional headlines in the campaign in the comments section of Kevins post.
A couple of observations raised here at Spencerfield when we [...]

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The SWA set new proposals for labelling

The Scotch Whisky Association are proposing new regulations for the labeling of Scotch Whisky which they hope to push through as European legislation by next spring.
Under the proposed regulations, whisky will be strictly defined under one of five categories, single malt, single grain, blended, blended malt and blended grain.
Distillers will also be allowed to attach [...]

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Swedish Malt Whisky

Here’s an interesting concept.
A new malt whisky distillery, in, er, Sweden.
(Or Destilleri as the Swedes would say.)
Beautiful building, a turn-of-the-century powerstation.
Hope the whisky does it justice.
Found via the ever watchful WhiskyGrotto.

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Ouch!

We’ve been monitoring Facebook recently here at Spencerfield, and are delighted to see a couple of Sheep Dip enthusiast groups have been set up.
Indeed, encouraged by this, we’ve also started our own group on FaceBook, called the Sheep Dip Fold, early days of course, and we do enter this world with some trepidation.
Particularly when [...]

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Coverage in Whisky Pages.

The venerable and very well informed online magazine Whisky Pages wrote a nice piece about us this week.
Providing it’s readers with an outline of Spencerfield, a mini-bio of Alex and a decent tasting review of Sheep Dip and Pig’s Nose.
You can read the article yourself, on the www.Whisky-Pages.com website here:

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An orphan brand and proud of it.

Recently, the Wall Street Journal no less, wrote about us.
(Only registered subscribers can access the wsj, but you can see the full story here.)

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Glenmorangie Revamp.

Much debate has gone on in the Scottish press over the last week, with particular emphasis on the ownership of whisky companies, and the consequences of this ownership.
Within this debate the changes to the iconic Glenmorangie label have, not unsurprisingly, generated a fairly emotional response.
This was a particularly interesting topic for me as I was [...]

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