This is Bruce MacMillan from Sydney with Stewart Laing of Douglas Laing and Co. in the Whsky Galore shop.
Bruce is a real fan and has now come down for two DramFests and gets his whisky sent over. Also Bruce is a member of “The Whisky Guild” and we are proud to have him as one [...]

Born in 1975 in Dundee, Scotland, James moved in his early childhood to the prolific whisky region of Speyside. Although too young at the time to understand what whisky and distilling was all about, this was to prove the beginning of a great journey into the world of Scotch.
James progressed through schooling in the remote [...]

Scot Jackson is a real whisky fan, from the US of A every year on his way to work at the Pole in Antarctica he pops in to Whisky Galore in the hope that we might have a bottle of the every illusive “Green Spot” Irish Whiskey.
Scot also enjoys other fine drams and has switched [...]

Spotted recently was Neil Munro who is from Blackford (the town where Tullibardine is produced) with a bottle of his favourite malt.

David Woodhouse and his good wife were going to pop into the shop last year (07) while in NZ from England to visit their daughters who live in Tuaranga and Christchurch.
However on their way here David got deep vein thrombosis and Mrs. Woodhouse fell ill (seriously) not long after their return to England without ever [...]

Malcolm McKenzie is holding the photo of the SS Politician, which he dived on.
Malcolm and his friend Linda are both from Scotland but now living in Christchurch.

Steve Grant and Ken Livingstone and his partner Sue (owners of the yacht) are members of The Whisky Guild. While sailing the Pacific, they had Black Bottle and other various whiskies delivered to them while on the Islands of the Pacific as people joined them in their travels.
“It was blowing a 45 -50 knot (90-100km/h) [...]

Charles MacLean is a writer whose special subject is Scotch whisky, about which he has published nine books to date, including the standard work on whisky brands, Scotch Whisky and the leading book on the subject, Malt Whisky, both of which were short-listed for Glenfiddich Awards.
Charles was brought to New Zealand in December 2004 by [...]

This rare limited edition Bowmore is from one of 12 casks commissioned by HRH Queen Elizabeth II. The distillery was reopened especially for her visit which took place in the ’silent season’. The stills were fired up and this whisky is the result of that occasion. The cask used for this bottling was given to [...]

The Whisky Guild bottling No.3, ‘Laphroaig 12 yr old Single Islay Malt Whisky – 52.2% abv’ is for the first time being bottled by Whisky Galore instore.
The proud owner of the first bottle is Simon Percy who was present at the bottling.
Unfortunately, The Whisky Guild bottling No.3, ‘Laphroaig 12 yr old Single Islay Malt’ is [...]