We’ve been busy hand selecting a single barrel from WhistlePig Farm in Vermont in search of another Nickolls & Perks Exclusive! In December 2018 we took a trip out to Shoreham in Vermont with Axiom Brands (The UK distributor for WhistlePig) to hand pick our very own single barrel. This release marks the first Nickolls & Perks Exclusive American Whiskey … Read More
We’ve released a Nickolls & Perks exclusive single cask GlenDronach!
Announcing our first single cask GlenDronach bottled exclusively for Nickolls & Perks – an 11 year old aged in a Pedro Ximénez sherry puncheon cask and presented at natural cask strength. We are delighted to share our first single cask bottling of GlenDronach with our customers worldwide. The whisky was distilled at GlenDronach in February 2007 and filled into a … Read More
Buffalo Trace Antique collection 2018 Ballot
Finally making its way to Nickolls & Perks from across the pond is the 2018 Buffalo Trace Antique Collection releases! As per last year, we’ll be distributing our allocation via ballot and this year you’ll be able to try them at Midlands whisky Festival too! If you are familiar with these whiskeys you’ll know by now that they are extremely … Read More
Win a pair of tickets to Midlands Whisky Festival plus 3x 1cl drams of the 2018 BTAC releases!
WIN a pair of tickets to the ever-popular whisky tasting experience, Midlands Whisky Festival: Stourbridge 2019 Enjoy a FREE 1cl dram of three whiskeys from the 2018 Buffalo Trace Antique Collection! The two-day whisky tasting experience taking place in Stourbridge March 22-23 is less than eight weeks away and preparations are well under way. We are giving one lucky winner … Read More
Nickolls & Perks Presents Midlands Whisky Festival 2019 At Stourbridge Town Hall
Nickolls & Perks have announced the next instalment of their ever-popular Midlands Whisky Festival, set to take place on 22nd and 23rd March 2019 at Stourbridge Town Hall. The two-day whisky extravaganza proves to be bigger and better than ever, with an array of acclaimed exhibitors and guests from over a dozen countries coming together under one roof to bring … Read More
Domaines Delon Including the Iconic Leoville Las Cases…
Antoine Guimbert, recently appointed Export Manager for Europe and the Americas, talked us through a flawless range of Bordeaux reds, with astounding alacrity on Wednesday 10th October. He held the audience’s attention in the Old Cellars beneath Nickolls & Perks’ shop with a great level of detail about his wines, which you might expect, but his knowledge more broadly about … Read More
Pairing Whisky With Food
In the world of wine, it’s very common to consider what bottles to go with certain foods. In fact, it’s a well-established tradition in the land of foodies. Yet it’s a good deal rarer to find many people in the whisky world considering what whiskies to pair with their foods instead. If you brought it up at many a traditionalist … Read More
Five Things To Look Out For At The Midlands Whisky Festival
Okay, you’re ready to go. You have your train ticket, your festival ticket, and you’ve had a decent breakfast that’ll mop up a fair amount of the drink you may consume. You’ve checked the festival website for directions, you’ve made a list of the exhibitors you want to check out, and you’re ready to queue up at the entrance. And … Read More
The French Connection….
A very enjoyable evening at the French Connection Bistro in Stourbridge, now under the management of the enterprising Ross McGilliot, gave us a chance to see how fine wines endure the extremes of the modern day, British summertime climate. Considering that we sat outside with a cold beer to start with and the temperature was a stifling 39 degrees, it is not … Read More
Interview with Keith Cruickshank, Distillery Manager of The Benromach Distillery Company Ltd.
We’re big fans of Benromach here at N&P. It’s a distillery that constantly brings forth some high quality, really well-made single malt whiskies. Full of flavour, and always interesting, they also manage to be astonishingly good value too. And value is becoming an increasingly rare thing in Scotch whisky, where premiumisation has become the way of things – so this … Read More