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All kinds of cloak-and-dagger skullduggery from Glenfiddich in the last few weeks, clearly designed to engage the whisky blog community:

Part 1 - A cryptic email on 19th July from a PR flunkey, enquiring about our address and promising a ‘rather valuable’ parcel to arrive on 26th July.

Part 2 – An apologetic email on 27th July, explaining that as not all the whisky bloggers to be involved in the ’surprise event’ had supplied their addresses on time (naughty bloggers!), the parcels were being delayed, but would be sent out on Friday 30th for arrival early this week

Part 3 – A notification email on Tuesday 3rd August explaining that the parcel was to be sent on Wednesday on a pre-noon delivery.  What a palaver!

Part 4 – The arrival this morning of a locked wooden box, with instructions to watch my inbox (presumably for the combination to the lock). 

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After the positive response I got from my last blog post on the positive whisky stuff happening at the moment – and because I’m a person with a generally sunny disposition (once the sun’s over the yard-arm at least) - I thought I’d continue with more reasons for the whisky world to be cheerful.  And, I’m delighted to report,  this week there are several.

In fact, summery feelings of well-being and mischief seem to be somewhat contagious in the blogging community at present.  Followers of Whiskyfun.com will already be aware of the stunning arrival of Glen Wonka, the world’s most expensive faux whisky, endorsed by the amusingly pompous and pretentious (yet somehow eerily familiar), Angus W. Apfelstrudel Jr., the hirsute author of the Whisky Tora.

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