Smith & Wollensky Tasting Two Days Away!

Posted Mar 24, 2009 The Wild Scotsman

Join us on Thursday, March 26 2009 for a Scotch Tasting featuring Wild Scotsman Whisky and a unique four course dinner prepared by our Chef. Our guest speakers are Jeff Topping, founder of Wild Scotsman Whisky and Master Distiller/Blender John McDougall. The reception is at 6:30 PM and the Dinner starts at 7:00 PM.

The pairings are outlined below:

1st Course

Wild Scotsman 15yr

Poached Lobster with spiked cream & arugula

2nd Course

Wild Scotsman Black Label

Maple walnut crusted salmon with a candied citrus oil

3rd Course

John McDougall’s 16yr

Antelope Chop over scalloped potatoes with a Juniper Sherry Glaze

4th Course

Wild Scotsman 12yr Royal Lochnagar

Vanilla Roasted Pear with a Chocolate almond tuille & Scotch Carmel

The event is priced at $100 per person plus tax & gratuity.

To make reservations or for more information please call (614) 416-2400.

We look forward to serving you,
Rob Schneider
General Manager
Smith & Wollensky
4145 The Strand West
(Easton Town Center)
Columbus, OH 43219

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Sample Day Monday’s

Posted Mar 23, 2009 The Wild Scotsman

Unless I am locked into a sensory deprivation tank there is no rest on the tour. John and I have spent the day reviewing aged RUM cask samples which we have acquired. Quite an amazing change of pace as we have been 100% Scotch focused on this tour. The only down side was that our sense of taste was off a wee bit for the scotch samples we needed to review. With that in mind we decided to give our taste buds a break and spend the afternoon at Air Force Museum located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OHIO.

After our semi day of rest we are off to hit the sales road on Dayton, OH on Tuesday and finish off with our tasting event.

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Whisky Tour Leg One Complete!

Posted Mar 22, 2009 The Wild Scotsman

If I owned a gym I might start a fitness class for on the road sales as I needed all of my energy. The week of sales in Chicago and Northern Illinois was a lot of work but well worth the effort. Late to bed and early to rise helps to put our brands into the consumers hand. Many thanks to Wine Knows for a wonderful event at Steven’s Steaks. Both John McDougall and I had a fantastic time.

After a 6 hour drive from Chicago we headed to Cleveland, OH to get our plane to New York City for meeting, private tasting, and an interview with our friend Mark Gillespie of The Whisky Cast. Stop by his site and listen to what is happening in the world of whisky.

We finished off our trip at St. Andrew’s Pub to have our final supper at the original location which is closing this April (no worries they have a new location). Many thanks for carrying the Wild Scotsman 15yr. I was proud to have the last dram from the bottle as that is all the patrons left me!

Here now in Dayton, OH looking foreword to our event Tuesday night at the Cork-N-Vineand then off to Columbus, OHIO.

Cheers from the road!

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Chicago Sales Downtown

Posted Mar 19, 2009 The Wild Scotsman

Many thanks to all of the shop, restaurant, and bar owners who opened their doors to our brands. We enjoyed meeting everyone and discussing our brands.

Thanks again To The House of Glunz for taking these two hungry foot soldiers for a bite to eat after a long day.

Cheers,
Jeff and John

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Wild Scotsman and John McDougall March Tour Underway!

Posted Mar 17, 2009 The Wild Scotsman

Just picked up my Scottish partner, John McDougall from the O’Hara Airport here in Chicago, IL. We have a hard day of sales in downtown Chicago on Wednesday, the suburbs on Thursday, a tasting at Steven’s Steaks Thursday night, and a staff training at our distributor on Friday morning.

Cheers,

The Wild Scotsman

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For the Love of Scotch!

Posted Mar 5, 2009 The Wild Scotsman

Sitting inside your work cubical I am sure being an Independent bottler seems like a wonderful thing. Travel, drink scotch, wear a kilt, and etc. The reality is that work is called work for a reason even if you work for yourself. The difference being one gets paid regardless of the work being done and the other only gets paid when there is work done, sales completed, and money recieved. I have been sick for the past two days to the point of not not being able to breath out my nose or just being alert. I sucked it up and got out of bed at 0330/hrs this morning to get a plane leaving at 0600/hrs from a city 1 1/2 hours away. I have taken two two hour flights to get me to Newark international only to spend another 3 hours on different trains to get me to The Madison Hotel in New Jersey. My apologies to all of those who saw a long hair, beared man, sweating up a store on the plane and train (they probably thought I was a crazy man).

Took a hot bath, relaxed in my room, and soon ready to give everyone their money’s worth of my time, scotch, and enthusiasm. Not because I get a check, but because that is who I am, an Independent bottler who lives off the sweat of my own brow and the enthusiasm of those who enjoy our brands.

Many thanks to all of you who took the time to have a dram as tonight’s tasting was just as important to me as it was to you.

Cheers,
The Wild Scotsman

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Wild Scotsman Illinois Whisky Tour Feb 24 to Feb 27

Posted Feb 20, 2009 The Wild Scotsman

Working hard or hardly working? I am hardly working at working hard as it is just second nature. I will spend both Tuesday and Wednesday in Champagne, IL and then head to the big city Wednesday evening. Looking foreword to trying my brands matched with the food of Chef Scott Commings at the Woodstock Country Club on Thursday Feb 26th. I will finish off the week getting my sales team prepared for selling the new brands.

Cheers,

The Wild Scotsman

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