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Regular readers will be aware of my interest in fine single malt whisky. Earlier this week, there was an exciting opportunity to secure a bottle of the latest Ardbeg. Ardbeg is my favourite whisky, and also World Whisky of the Year. Supernova has incredibly high peat content, and I managed to order a bottle at 9.01am, a few hours later, all the bottles in the limited release had sold out... Will tell you what it tastes like when I get it... If you're good I'll let you sniff the cork...
SAGT 2008: the REPORT
On Friday night, after setting up the GA stand, had a meal at the very nice, and very French Le Petit Paris restaurant on Queensferry Road.
A windy night followed, and in the morning it rained on and off most of the day.
For the second year, the conference was held at Edinburgh Academy. First thing was to grab a coffee and man the GA stand with the other publications, and to start handing out over 150 free satellite image maps of the earth from space, and also have conversations with the 290 odd delegates. The maps were donated by the GeoSphere project .
At 9.40 the publishers’ awards, presented by John Vannet, were announced. In the Book category, the GA picked up both the awards that were available. A ‘Commended’ award went to ‘Caring for our World’ by Fran Martin and Paula Owens, and the WINNER in the book award went to the Teacher’s Toolkit. Margaret Roberts collected the awards.
It was then across to the Hall for Malcolm McDonald’s Presidential Ad...
Corryvreckan Corryvreckan is a whirlpool, which is located between the islands of Jura and Scarba in the Scottish Hebrides. Image credit: http://www.hebridean-wild.co.uk/about.html Extract from Wikipedia article: The Corryvreckan is the third largest whirlpool in the world, and is on the northern side of the gulf, surrounding a pyramid-shaped basalt pinnacle that rises from depths of 70 m to 29 m at its rounded top. Flood tides and inflow from the Firth of Lorne to the west can drive the waters of Corryvreckan to waves of over 30 feet (9 m), and the roar of the resulting maelstrom can be heard ten miles (16 km) away. Formerly classified by the Admiralty as unnavigable (the Admiralty's West Coast of Scotland Pilot guide to inshore waters still calls it "very violent and dangerous" and says "no vessel should then attempt this passage without local knowledge"), its treacherous waters are nevertheless still sailed and swum by a few hardy adventurers. However, th...
Geography and Whisky When starting this blog, I nearly called it Geography and a Wee Dram, as along with jazz, single malt whisky is one of my other passions... Got a very nice booklet today from those nice people at Ardbeg . It introduces a new whisky called "Airigh Nam Beist" which sounds rather nice. Recently finished a rather nice bottle of Ardbeg "Still Young", and intend getting another bottle soon! While up in Scotland at the SAGT Conference, I visited my favourite whisky bar: the Taychreggan Inn at West Ferry, Dundee and was made very welcome as always. This time, Mark the owner gave us a free dram of a new discovery: a peaty Speyside malt called BenRiach . Very nice it is too! The picture above, taken by John Vannet, shows Mark pouring a generous measure of Ardbeg : the greatest Islay malt, one of over 300 malts stocked at the Taychreggan. Laphroaig also have another Geographical connection: visit the website and claim your free square foot of Islay - I h...