Blog Tweaks

We've just implemented a couple of tweakettes to the blog this morning.

The background is a little different and we're also trying a little lighter text - no real reason just a bit of a change for the New Year. There are also a couple of new pictures to make things more interesting and varied. Same old content though I'm afraid.

I would however like to take this opportunity to say hi to our new readers who've come via Twitter (I think there have been four or five since I last posted an update on Twitter about this blog) - so hi and enjoy.

We've also had a massive bump in readers at this blog. At the end of December when I last put together web stats we had had 850 visits, we're now up to 1220 - our feel is that in addition to our valuable customers who want to keep up to date, there is also now traffic from whisky industry observer and insiders - we will hopefully be featuring content that will interest everyone in coming months.

Please, please, please remember that although we massively enjoy writing this blog and Tweeting merrily away, it's not a charity so get across to www.prestigewhisky.com and buy something ! (only half-joking - we still have to pay the salaries of the Christmas Elves who did such a sterling job over the festive period. Of course we'll also need to begin budgeting for the Easter bunnies who will shortly be arriving at PW Towers to begin work as we move towards April.

Added this week

The Talisker 57 Degrees, a super Island whisky for £ 50 plus P & P and also the Macallan Sherry Oak 12 Year Old.

Macallan has long been one of our favourite tipples and we strongly recommend this one at £ 35.00 plus postage.

Both are available at www.prestigewhisky.com

Over 1,000 followers on Twitter

We have cracked the psychologically important barrier of 1,000 Twitter followers today - 1,022 at the last check and rising.

Importantly we're now also included in 12 Twitter lists, this has risen from 5 just before the Festive break. It seems that news of PW and this blog (with over 1200 views) is now rapidly becoming important to the scotch whisky industry.

We're hoping to bring you interviews and news from industry players in coming months too.

Watch this space !

IWSC Award winners

Watch out for lots from our new IWSC range - you'll see them arriving in the first quarter of 2010 - all fine and sensational expressions - the very best of the best in the world of whisky.

The first is a silver award winner - the Talisker 57 Degrees, available for £ 50.00

Exciting Twitter news ...

Exciting news from over at Twitter, our account whisky1 is about to go over the 1,000 follower mark - we currently have 998 - watch out for this milestone in the next couple of hours !