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UNFILTERED ISSUE 93 MAY 2024
Festival flavours coming your way
From the Spirit of Speyside festival, down to Campbeltown for the Malts Festival and ultimately over to Islay for Fèis Ìle, it’s an outstanding time to be a whisky fan in Scotland.
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WHISKY KNOWLEDGE
This month sees the launch of the Society’s first-ever documentary, telling the story of sherry casks from the forests of Galicia to the cooperages and bodegas of the ‘sherry triangle’ in Andalucía. Unfiltered editor Richard Goslan produced Scotch & Sherry: A Flavour Odyssey and explains here what to expect, and how it all came together.
Many of you will have been fascinated by one of Olaf Meier’s passionate tasting sessions. Our SMWS ambassador is a fountain of knowledge, driven by a limitless number of whisky stories, who now finds himself celebrating his 20th year representing the Society. Despite having more than two decades of whisky experience, Olaf started his journey with humble beginnings, as Duncan Gorman finds out.
