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Highland Park Webcast – Earl Magnus / Vintage Collection 9/28

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Join Gerry Tosh (Head of Brand Education) and Jason Craig (Global Controller) at Highland Park HQ in Perth, Scotland for a look at what is new and coming soon in the world of Highland Park Scotch Whisky. The lads give us a sneak look at Earl Magnus, The Vintage Collection “affordable collectibles”, Jason explains Highland Park packaging philosophy, we get a preview of what is coming soon and answer questions from Germany, Australia, Sweden, India and Japan. Don’t miss this informative 20 minute exclusive Singlemalt TV webcast. (Give the video a few seconds to get started)

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Kentucky Bourbon Festival Video on SMTV

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The best exclusive coverage of the Kentucky Bourbon Festival is available at www.singlemalt.tv—check it out!

Once you’ve seen our coverage of the Kentucky Bourbon Festival head on over to our facebook page and leave us your thoughts, as always you can reach us through the blog as well!

Cheers and enjoy the videos!

Tags: Beam Global Wine & Spirits, Bookers, bourbon, drinks events, drinks industry, George T. Stagg, Heaven Hill, Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Knob Creek, Makers Mark, Video, whiskey, Woodford Reserve
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Singlemalt TV’s Exclusive Coverage of the Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

I write this from the heart of Bardstown, where Singlemalt TV has two crews on the ground cover Kentucky Bourbon Festival….

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Singlemalt TV’s Ali Mutch (left) clinks a glass with new friends at Bourbon, Cigars and Jazz on Friday.

….I guess that was all I had time to write as it is now a full week after I began this post and the Kentucky Bourbon Festival has come to an end. Back at Singlemalt TV Headquarters we’re already reminiscing about the seven days we spent in Kentucky, and while the week was packed it is impossible not to have a great time in Bourbon Country. From the incredible hospitality (bakery fresh donuts anyone?) to the fantastic bourbon (Evan Williams Single Barrel was a true champion of our cause) to the Kentucky Bourbon Festival itself–there is nothing that quite compares.

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Competitors at the Legendary Barrel Relay where distillery employees show their strength.

Our Bardstown outpost, the old library right in historic Court Square, looked out over the very heart of town. The cavernous space was offered up to us by the community, and it served us remarkably well. Though our efforts were centered around that old brick building, our cameras (we were informed) were seemingly everywhere.

Our daily live webcasts were promptly followed by hours of shooting—footage was constantly arriving from the crews as they returned from each location–only to venture out once again Niki (our editor and Parker Beam’s biggest fan) working tirelessly from her editing suite in the center of the massive room. Each night, bone-tired, we gathered around her screen to watch the night’s show. Time was captured on screen as all of the meticulous detail of the day materialized on Singlemalt TV. From the red wax-dipping at Maker’s Mark in Loretto on Tuesday to the red carpet at Saturday’s Kentucky Bourbon Festival Gala–the essence of Bourbon Country seems captured in every frame.

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Singlemalt TV’s Ali Mutch chats with bourbon industry icons Jimmy Russell of Wild Turkey and Fred Noe of Jim Beam.
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Singlemalt TV’s Ali Mutch talks with the Wild Turkey Barrel Rolling Relay team.

Then there were the people, each of them could perhaps occupy a blog post of their own. the Master Distillers—true geniuses of the drink in all of their laughing, good-natured glory at the Kentucky Bourbon All Star Sampler. Later we caught up with some of these icons of bourbon in their tuxedoes, a world away from their distilleries but smiling and carrying on just the same. The restaurant staff on the Urban Bourbon Trail–each with a little trick or special recipe that they happily shared with our presenter as cameras rolled. All the PR and media folks from each of the distilleries, eager to have Singlemalt TV visit, for the umpteenth time in some cases. The staff of the Tourist Commissions and Vistitor Bureaus In Bardstown, Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort–all elated to have our crews in town. We encounted the same struggle with drafting the credit roll for our last show, there are just too many to list.

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Ali Mutch Shares a laugh with Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear at Saturday’s Bourbon Festival Gala.

We joked that the old library had become our home, but truly it is hard not to feel at home in Bardstown–where the locals embrace strange camera-toting interlopers with open arms–and the hospitality is (truly) as good as the bourbon.

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Tom Bulleit makes his Master Distiller’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech.

If you missed Kentucky Bourbon Festival we hope our coverage will transport you to Bardstown–if you were fortunate enough to attend I hope you had a chance to meet our crew (or even appear on SMTV!).

Bourbon Lovers stay tuned to Singlemalt TV, Kentucky we hope to see you soon.

Tags: Ali Mutch, Beam Global Wine & Spirits, Bookers, bourbon, Buffalo Trace, Bulleit, drinks events, drinks industry, Heaven Hill, Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Knob Creek, Makers Mark, Maltstock, Singlemalt TV, Woodford Reserve
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