What a fantastic rountable, gutted that I missed this! Fantastic hosting Ben, cheers mate and brilliant conversation. Rob is from the industry but he feels like one of us, in the game for the love of it. You can feel the passion from him and this was a joy to watch. Cheers fellas 🥃
Loved this live! Speaking of Independent, I found Cotswolds via SMWS and went out and purchased Founders, Sherry and Peat OB - I really love the brand. Hunting for Bourbon aged and a backup for Founders.
Missed this live - dont know why. Cotswolds Distillery is fairly local to me - ive visited at least 3 times - great cafe as well as brilliant tours (the founders tour with Dan is amazing). The whisky they produce is simply fabulous.
Sorry missed this (Menno & I were live at the same time on my channel, we had no idea about it) but will watch the replay asap as I love some English whisky (Cotswolds & Spirit of Yorkshire being my favorite so far), though we can find barely only 4 different distilleries products here in France, Cheers !
Really disappointed I missed this live, fascinating stuff and something that needed to be done on English Whisky! As for the G.I., Vin makes a great point on the fact that whether its Non Chillfiltered or Natural Colour, that information should be made compulsory for all English Whisky products, while you've still got the chance to do so with the G.I. and the regs for English Whisky. The fact that Diageo is now heavily involved in at least one English Distillery, makes me think that this will not be on the agenda now. Which is hugely disappointing for me, and a big opportunity missed, with a chance to offer a point of difference to Scotch and Irish.
Really interesting to hear the thoughts on Cotswolds being in supermarkets and the cons associated with it as it's been great for me to be able to grab a bottle off the shelf in Belfast from Sainsbury's but it has given the company great exposure in my market. I've been through several bottles of the signature and enjoyed all of them.
Sorry: Greg & Menno 'did a bit of a Roy' (!), so it took me a while to get back here and watch this. I had a quick look at my spreadsheets and I've got 37 English bottles at the moment, including 2 Cotswolds (plus I've still got some left in their younger-than-whisky taster pack), 5 from Adnams (although one is a whisky-adjacent eau de vie de bière) and 3 Oxford ryes.
Found myself sitting back and getting lost in this great chatter around English whisky. Cheers Ben for hosting 🥃
What a fantastic rountable, gutted that I missed this! Fantastic hosting Ben, cheers mate and brilliant conversation. Rob is from the industry but he feels like one of us, in the game for the love of it. You can feel the passion from him and this was a joy to watch. Cheers fellas 🥃
Loved this live! Speaking of Independent, I found Cotswolds via SMWS and went out and purchased Founders, Sherry and Peat OB - I really love the brand. Hunting for Bourbon aged and a backup for Founders.
Missed this live - dont know why. Cotswolds Distillery is fairly local to me - ive visited at least 3 times - great cafe as well as brilliant tours (the founders tour with Dan is amazing). The whisky they produce is simply fabulous.
Fantastic stream lads. Waiting to see if Daddy Diageo take your advice and act!
Sorry missed this (Menno & I were live at the same time on my channel, we had no idea about it) but will watch the replay asap as I love some English whisky (Cotswolds & Spirit of Yorkshire being my favorite so far), though we can find barely only 4 different distilleries products here in France, Cheers !
Really disappointed I missed this live, fascinating stuff and something that needed to be done on English Whisky!
As for the G.I., Vin makes a great point on the fact that whether its Non Chillfiltered or Natural Colour, that information should be made compulsory for all English Whisky products, while you've still got the chance to do so with the G.I. and the regs for English Whisky. The fact that Diageo is now heavily involved in at least one English Distillery, makes me think that this will not be on the agenda now. Which is hugely disappointing for me, and a big opportunity missed, with a chance to offer a point of difference to Scotch and Irish.
Really interesting to hear the thoughts on Cotswolds being in supermarkets and the cons associated with it as it's been great for me to be able to grab a bottle off the shelf in Belfast from Sainsbury's but it has given the company great exposure in my market. I've been through several bottles of the signature and enjoyed all of them.
Should have added my thanks to Ben for hosting and to Rob for his honesty and insight
Sorry: Greg & Menno 'did a bit of a Roy' (!), so it took me a while to get back here and watch this. I had a quick look at my spreadsheets and I've got 37 English bottles at the moment, including 2 Cotswolds (plus I've still got some left in their younger-than-whisky taster pack), 5 from Adnams (although one is a whisky-adjacent eau de vie de bière) and 3 Oxford ryes.