Feis Ile 2013 (Part 1)

On Tuesday the 20th November, Bowmore took on an excursion to Fort William to scale Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the UK as part of the International Federation Mountain Guides Associations annual meet.

So it is the run up to Christmas but it is the time for Whisky Shows, lots of them! I have two more of this season to go finishing up in Zurich on 2nd December with Whisky Schiff and this weekend coming, Interwhisky in Frankfurt. Last weekend we were at two Whisky Shows, Glasgow Whisky Festival and one of the largest in Europe, Whisky Live Den Haag. 

Bowmore is proud to be sponsoring this year’s meeting of the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations. Over the next week we’ll be bringing you news and articles as the mountain guides scale Britain’s highest mountain and challenge themselves at the International Mountain Guide Climbing Championship in Ratho, just outside of Edinburgh.

Well it has been a crazy month of travel around Europe incorporating some seven or so countries on the way! We all know that this time of year is hectic but it is still great fun to get out there and talk a lot about our brands! Bowmore does have such and affinity with people and when you giver them our products they love the balance, whether from Spain or Russia!

Anyone interested in a walk on the wild side should consider spending a day or two at Sandwood Bay in Sutherland. Bordered by dramatically eroded cliffs and backed by dynamic sand dunes the coastline curves away gracefully to the most north-westerly point on mainland Britain

Be amongst the first to see the oldest ever Bowmore and the oldest Islay Single Malt ever released – our magical 1957.

Kenya saw us in the bush tagging rhino and a lion all in aid of trying to keep track of where the animals go and are the cats taking cattle as easy prey.  Important stuff for conservation and critical to the survival of the rhino who’s horn has reached obscene value on the black market.

Jack London’s Call of the Wild left an indelible impression on my young mind. In the desolate landscapes of Alaska and the Yukon - the Northland, he portrays the harshness of the environment and just how unforgiving it was in these early days of prospectors. The thin line that separated life from death was ever present and in the absence of many of life’s other distractions the struggle for survival was laid bare.