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Although it rather seems to have been superseded in recent decades, the kitemark scheme was generally some sort of guarantee of reasonable quality. Doubtless it was, or is, as fallible as any other human run scheme, but to my youthful eyes it always seemed like a Good Thing.
Last night's meeting of Glasgow's Whisky Club reminded me once again that there's a crying need for some mechanism whereby the whisky drinkers can be alerted to the presence of whisky for collectors, thus saving themselves the pain of overpriced, underperforming malt, and leaving more sealed bottles for the auction fiends.
The day had started with the unexpected appearance of two new drams from Compass Box, Flaming Heart 2015 and This is not a Luxury Whisky. A tasting of the latter quickly revealed that it wasn't worth the asking price, which arguably is almost the definition of a luxury good.
The Club night featured only one standard dram. It was a strong line up, with the dram of the night being an Auchentoshan 22 Year Old (bottled by the Creative Whisky Co. for my employer, the Good Spirits Co.)
But the shiny bottle, the one that provoked the most chat, was the new Arran Illicit Stills Volume 1. It was a fine drop, and didn't seem too youthful, albeit somewhat harsh in the finish. As with the Compass Box in the morning, the complexity of the dram didn't justify the price tag. However, the blooming thing is all sold out already. A quick rummage online suggests most retailers presold their stock. And that's despite there being 8700 bottles. What the heck?
So. We need some sort of classification or scheme whereby collectable whisky is separated out from the drinking drams. If bottles such as This is not a Luxury and Illicit Stills were marked with a 'guaranteed collectable' kitemark, then those of us who prefer their whisky to taste good, first, last, and foremost can safely pass them by and go find something tasty in an ugly container.
Labels: Arran, Auchentoshan, Compass Box, kitemark
Distillery Visit: Dalwhinnie
On one of those rare glorious days when the sun is blazing down from a cerulean sky and Scotland seems more beautiful than any other place on Earth, I made the three hour train journey to Dalwhinnie.
The distillery sits just to the north of the village, clearly visible with its whitewashed walls and neat wooden worm tubs. It's a compact distillery, rebuilt in the late 1930s after a disastrous fire, and it feels like it could be the original Victorian buildings. The large impressive worm tubs at the front of the distillery have just been renewed in 2015 and add to the spick and span feel. It's a Diageo distillery, so no photography, which is a bit of a shame, as the mash tun is housed in what was a malt kiln, so there's a fantastic view of Charles Doig's roof from the inside.
Diageo also means a tightly scripted tour, but I was very lucky to have an enthusiastic guide who was happy to address my many supplementary questions. The guide gave a very thorough explanation of the whisky making process, and talked about Dalwhinnie's now abandoned experiment with shell & tube condensers, and how worm tubs are an essential component of the Dalwhinnie character. It was also interesting to learn that Dalwhinnie controls fermentation times by raising the temperature to kill the yeast.
The tun room has one 60,000 litre full lauter mash tun, with the rakes set high so as not to disturb the cereal bed, thus leading to a clear worts. There are six wooden washbacks, which ferment for about 60 hours, to produce a wash of about 9% alcohol.
The stills are large, lantern style, and they are worked hot, so that the spirit vapours don't get too much copper contact.
Dalwhinnie produces about 1 million litres a year. Most of this is stored elsewhere, with only a few thousand casks held onsite, in both racking and dunnage warehouses.
The recipe for Dalwhinnie, so to speak, is to make a fruity wash, distil it quite fast in big stills which don't give much reflux, and cool it rapidly with extremely cold water. The result is a new make spirit which is fruity, but also has a sulphur note. Consequently, the spirit needs long ageing, so as to reduce the sulphur to a trace, a suggestion of meatiness and a fuller body.
After the tour I did the Friends tasting, which includes five different expressions of Dalwhinnie, plus the new make spirit. I would sum up Dalwhinnie thusly:
* Key flavours: toffee citrus(lemon, with a little bitter orange), honey, grist
* Dalwhinnie really doesn't take water very well.
* The variations on the basic theme of the 15 Year Old don't really go anywhere very exciting. The Distillers Edition is allegedly sherried, but you would hardly know. The two outstanding drams were the 25 Year Old (which cost north of £300), and a 1991 cask sample which was delicious, but where the cask character was very dominant. (This is not necessarily a bad thing, but to approach perfection a whisky ought to meld a distinctive spirit with good wood in a way which lets both shine without either dominating)
I had quite a bit of time to kill before getting the train home, so I went for a wander to the south end of the village. It was an absolute belter of a day, and I ended up getting slightly sunburnt, but it was worth it. Just look at that beautiful, beautiful view:
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Labels: Dalwhinnie, Diageo, Diageo Special Releases, Distillery visit, Highlands
Oban Little Bay. Meh.
It seems that the current trend for established distilleries to add whiskies of unspecified age continues apace. June saw a re-arranging of the Glen Scotia range, with three age statement malts being dropped and two new non-age whiskies replacing them. Now Oban is the latest to join in the fun. Little Bay will be available very soon, and it was on tasting at Whisky Fringe 2015.
Obviously a whisky festival isn't the best place to get to know a new dram, but I scribbled my notes and then discussed the whisky with a couple of other folk, and there did seem to be a fairly solid consensus. Our conclusion: meh.
It's not a bad whisky, in fact it's fairly decent, and bears a family resemblance to the 14 Year Old. On the nose I found salty-sweet caramel, and a gristy (youthful?) and heathery note. The palate was initially fruity (grapefruit, perhaps), and then very sweet, and somewhat earthy and woody.
But it's certainly no better than the 14. I was told by Diageo's personable young brand ambassador that the whisky is vatted from a selection of normal casks before being being put to quarter casks for a second maturation. Well, I'm pretty positive that they're not fresh quarter casks.
All in all, it's hard to be enthusiastic about a new release which isn't any better than the existing product, which meets a producer's need, rather than any burning desire the consumer might have for new and different malts. So, Oban Little Bay, meh.
Labels: Fringe, NAS, Non age statement, Oban, Whisky
Comparison: Redbreast 15 Year Old versus Redbreast 21 Year Old
Redbreast 15 Year Old (43%, distiller's bottling)
nose: sweet and nutty, oily, sherried, mellow, and with a slight rum-like note. Definitely oily, in a mineralic way. With water it seems more rummy, sweeter, and curiously more oily.
palate: burnt brown sugar, oily, slightly mineral. A little fruity and rather woody. The finish is all dark wood and gravy browning. Overall very grippy, even chewy. With water it becomes softer, although still somewhat chewy. The flavours open up into icing sugar, toffee, dry spices, and oak. The finish now longer and more mellow.
nose: rather more high toned than the 15. Similarly rummy, but also very nutty and oily - linseed oil. Over time the tones darken, and some oily red fruit comes out (red apple oleosaccharum perhaps).With water it becomes huge; savoury-sweet like Jamaican rum, thick, meaty, with old sherry wood, and a sweet brandy snap note.
palate: very rummy (Jamaican for sure), with green fruits, ice cream and warm brown spices. The finish is very hot and spicy, but also like rum ice cream. The aftertaste is savoury-herbal. With water some malt comes out, and the savoury notes grow stronger. The finish is very long.
The Redbreast 21 Year Old is an absolutely immense dram, with intense,complex flavours. The pure pot still style of whiskey makes for a thick, mouth-coating kind of whisky which is deeply satisfying to drink. If you are tired the 21 will overwhelm you, so it's a dram for early in the evening.
The 15 Year Old is rather easier to drink, while still offering the same thick, oily mouthfeel and rich fruity flavours. A great after dinner drink.
I tasted these two alongside samples of Redbreast 12, Powers John's Lane, and Midleton Barry Crockett Legacy. The Redbreast 21 was, for me, head and shoulders above all the others.
About Pure Pot Still Whiskey
Fermented from a mix of malted and unmalted barley, and then triple distilled in pot stills, this uniquely Irish style evolved in the 19th century as a way of coping with onerous malt taxes.
As Irish whiskey declined, it became less and less important, until only Midleton distillery near Cork continued to make it, with Redbreast as the standard bearer for the style. Now that Irish whiskey is once again on the rise, I hope we'll see more and more of this lovely style of whiskey.
A wee Brora (as you do)
I've been lucky enough to taste a handful of Broras over the years (once even at Clynelish distillery), and like many people, I consider it to be one of the finest old malts to be had.
On the other hand, the Connoisseurs Choice label tends not to be held in such esteem. It is indeed admirable that Gordon & Macphail offer so many different malts under so many labels, but they can't all be good, and in my experience the poorer ones end up as Connoisseurs Choice.
So it was a delightful surprise to find this dram so delicious. The nose was powerfully fruity, all ripe yellows and reds, with a strong strand of wax, and all very sweet. This being a late period Brora, there is no smoke to found.
The palate was even sweeter than the nose had suggested, with strong red apple notes and something yellow which might have been mango. The sweetness reminded me of brown sugar, and towards the finish I found a touch of beery malt. By the time I had finished the dram it was becoming a little astringent in the finish.
When Brora is peaty, the fruity flavours slip into the background, but this unpeated example served to emphasise the kinship between it and Clynelish. There's very few things to beat that ultra ripe fruit character in a whisky, and very few distilleries that can do it like Clynelish and Brora.
Brora, by the way, stands as a fine example of how the Scotch industry is so bad at forecasting. The old Clynelish distillery was closed when a much larger replacement was built next door in the mid 1960s. Shortly after that the owners (unexpectedly!) found themselves short of peated spirit and reopened the old distillery to cope, calling it Clynelish B and then, after a while, Brora. Then in the early 1980s another unforseen fluctuation (downwards this time) led to the final closure of Brora. Although, if you ask me, it didn't look too dilapidated when I was shown round...
Labels: 1982, Brora, Clynelish, Connoisseurs Choice
Comparison: Redbreast 15 Year Old versus Redbreast...


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In the modern world we occupy, tech company names like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and others are a part of our daily life and conversations. Some of them, like Google, become synonymous with the act itself. If you need to search something, you "just Google it," which is much like what happened to Xerox when copiers came into vogue. Have you ever stopped to consider where some of these names came from, and what their meanings are? Take a look!
As we all know, this company has pretty much redefined how people get things done on a day-to-day basis. But Google wasn't its original name. The Google corporate history mentions that in 1996, Stanford students Larry Page and Sergei Brin created a search engine and called it "BackRub." Their first logo was Larry Page's hand.
The name Google is a play on the mathematical term "googol," which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros—and it was a total accident. As the story goes, Page was in his Stanford office with some other grad students. One of them, Sean Anderson, suggested "Googolplex" and Page liked the shortened version, "Googol." Anderson then did a domain name search, but spelled it "Google," and that domain was available. Page snagged it, and that got the ball rolling.
The Yahoo name is about to change, however. According to NPR, if the sale of core assets to Verizon goes through, what's left will be called "Altaba," which is a combination of the words "Alternate" and "Alibaba." The New York Times mentions that "Altaba" is very close to the name "Al-Taba," which is the name of a scissors maker in Pakistan.
Another website that has changed the way people buy and sell online, eBay's name is merely a shortened version of the founder's first choice. Wikipedia says when Pierre Omidyar was launching the site, it was owned by his consulting firm, "Echo Bay Technology Group." However, when he tried for that domain name, it was already taken by Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company. So he just shortened it down to his second choice, eBay.
Whether you find apples intimidating or otherwise is a personal inclination, but either way, the name isn't going anywhere. It's particularly fascinating when a brand takes a word, especially an unrelated noun, that already has a definition and then makes it their own.
The ubiquitous e-tailer was almost called "Cadabra," as in "Abracadabra." Mashable says Bezos then went with "Amazon" after his lawyer thought he said "Cadaver," which would easily have gone down as the worst start-up name ever. The story mentions that the name "Amazon" suggests a large scale, and since website listings were often A-Z back in the day, "Amazon" would be towards the top of the list. Wikipedia also says Bezos considered calling it "Relentless" but friends thought that was "sinister." Bezos bought the domain Relentless.com anyway, and it still redirects to Amazon. Bonus factoid: the smile in their logo refers to the fact they sell everything from A-Z.
When the makers of the popular video chat program were trying to come up with a name, Mental Floss says they came up with "Sky peer to peer." That was shortened to "Skyper" but that domain was taken. You see a pattern- if you have an idea for a new product, grab the domain before you've even made the product! So Skype.com it was.


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Melanie Yazzie Geographies of Memory Exhibition Video produced by The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in association with Glenn Green Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Melanie Yazzie works a wide range of media that include printmaking, painting, sculpting, and ceramics, as well as installation art. Her art is accessible to the public on many levels and the main focus is on connecting with people and educating people about the contemporary status of one indigenous woman and hoping that people can learn from her experience. Her subject matter is significant because the serious undertones reference native post-colonial dilemmas. Her work often brings images of women from many indigenous cultures to the forefront. Thus her work references matrilineal systems and points to the possibility of female leadership. "There are many layers to the works and within the story, many discover that our history is varied and deep. It is made clear that there are many indigenous peoples in the world and we all have different stories and it sometimes has a sad connection to mainstream society. Often misunderstood and overlooked are the ways in which we can all learn from each other and make a better world." She has been represented by Glenn Green Galleries since 1993.
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The Cottages of Cypresswood is an apartment community near Old Town Spring and The Woodlands. Both areas have become premier destinations for diverse shopping, dining and entertainment options.
Once a historic railroad town, Old Town Spring now houses a quaint shopping complex with boutiques, restaurants and exciting festivals. Browse an assortment of clothes, accessories and gift items at Southern Glitz and Glam, or shop for children's clothes and toys at Jitterbug Boutique. When you get hungry, order pork ribs or moist brisket at Corkscrew BBQ then top it off with their famous blueberry cobbler. Visit in springtime and attend Old Town's famous Crawfish Festival, or drop in between the holidays for their annual Home for the Holidays celebration.
Venture a few minutes north of the apartment community and experience everything The Woodlands has to offer, too. Savor brunch at Black Walnut Café or Jasper's before taking a leisurely stroll through Northshore Park. For a unique experience, take a boat ride to a nearby concert or restaurant while sightseeing in style on a Woodlands Waterway Cruiser. Shop at popular stores, including JC Penney, Fossil, American Eagle Outfitters and Game Stop at The Woodlands Mall.
Stop by The Cottages of Cypresswood and explore the surrounding neighborhoods today.


As an institute dedicated to leadership, training and education the Digital Film Academy (DFA) of the Sri Lanka Foundation (SLF) decided to act and launch a bi-annual film festival named The Colombo International Student Film Festival (Abbreviated: COINS Film Fest) to accept, honor and recognize student films from South Asia and all over the world.
The inaugural event of the COINS Film Festival was held in April 2011 which turned out to be a great success. It created a meeting ground for both local and international artists to meet young talent and offered huge networking opportunities for both parties concerned. About 700 participants took part in the 2011 COINS film festival which was held in April. The film workshops was conducted by the acclaimed cinematographer M.D Mahindapala and Sri Lankan filmmaker Boodee Keerthisena. An exhibition was also held where all the Sri Lankan production houses were involved.
The 2nd COINS Film Fest was held in April 2014, at the Sri Lanka Foundation Premises where over 1000 individuals from over 06 countries participated including from China, India, Hong Kong and USA. In the 2014 COINS, about 1100 people participated and a number of film workshops were conducted by acclaimed cinematographer A.S. Kanal and film director Jayashree Kanal. And during the 2014 COINS exhibition, the octocopter was launched in Sri Lanka. The Cinemaya Museum was also established during this event.
Many local academic institutions also participated at this event including University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Television Training Institute (SLTTI), National Film Corporation (NFC), University of Kelaniya, Sri Palee Campus affiliated to the University of Colombo, University of Visual and performing Arts, University of Peradeniya and national schools.


Geneva, 1 December 2015 – ITU and UN Women have announced the twelve finalists for the second annual GEM-TECH Awards, which recognize outstanding work to leverage the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to promote the empowerment of women and girls.
This year's awards attracted close to 150 nominations from government, the private sector, academia and civil society from 55 countries. Online nominations were open from 28 May to 31 July, and attracted a wide range of projects and advocacy work linked to harnessing ICTs for women's empowerment.
The winners will be selected by a committee of experts from ITU and UN Women with input from last year's winners. They will be announced at a special awards ceremony on 14 December 2015 held at Civic Hall in New York, co-hosted by the New York Mayor's Office.
Jointly organized by ITU and UN Women, the awards were launched in 2014 in recognition of the tremendous power of ICTs to transform women's lives by providing them with better access to education, information, support networks, employment opportunities, avenues for political participation, and devices and apps that can improve personal safety. The awards aim to recognize the diversity and scope of work being done around the world.
Finalists: Cisco Networking Academy, USA; Technovation Challenge, USA; Roxana Rugina, CEO and Founder of Simplon Romania, Romania; Women in Technology Uganda, Uganda.
Finalists: the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, UK; Community Development Association (CDA), Georgia; the Research Center of Communication and Development Knowledge Management (CCDKM), Thailand; and Ooredoo, Qatar.
Finalists: Hanane Boujemi, Senior Manager of Internet Governance Programme, MENA Region, the Netherlands; the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Senegal; Mujeres Digitales, Colombia; the National Network to End Domestic Violence's (NNEDV) Safety Net Project, USA.
ITU and UN Women have recognized the work of three GEM-TECH Global Achievers, who are this year H.E. Anusha Rehman Khan, Minister of State for IT and Telecommunications, Pakistan; H.E. Pamela Hamamoto, Ambassador, US Mission in Geneva; and Dr Nancy Hafkin, Senior Associate, Women in Global Science and Technology, USA.
The inaugural GEM-TECH Awards were presented at ITU's 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference held in Busan, Republic of Korea. There, seven individuals and organizations from around the world won awards for promoting gender equality and mainstreaming through ICTs.
ITU is already engaged in promoting women's empowerment through ICTs. ITU's Girls in ICT Day, which takes place annually on the fourth Thursday in April, encourages young women and girls to pursue a career in ICT, and has to date reached over 177,000 girls through more than 5,300 events in over 150 countries. ITU's Special Envoy on Women and Girls in ICT is award winning actor and advocate, Geena Davis.
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Schelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling's philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810.
Schelling's philosophy of art is the 'keystone' of the system; it unifies his idea of freedom and his philosophy of nature. Schelling?s idea of freedom is developed through a critique of the formalism of Kant?s and Fichte's practical philosophies, and his nature-philosophy is developed to show how subjectivity and objectivity emerge from a common source in nature. The philosophy of art plays a dual role in the system. First, Schelling argues that artistic activity produces through the artwork a sensible realization of the ideas of philosophy. Second, he argues that artistic production creates the possibility of a new mythology that can overcome the socio-political divisions that structure the relationships between individuals and society. Shaw?s careful analysis shows how art, for Schelling, is the highest expression of human freedom.


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