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Greendale’s Michael Fraser Milne at the Master of the Quaich ceremony held in April at Blair Castle, Scotland - where he was honoured by the whisky gurus.
At a ceremony held at Blair Castle, Perthshire, Scotland in April this year, local Greendale resident and owner of Christchurch business Whisky Galore, Michael Fraser Milne was made a Master of the Quaich. This prestigious recognition for outstanding achievement in the Scotch whisky industry, comes after Michael had been a Keeper of the Quaich since 2008. Keepers can be made after seven years in the industry, while Masters must first be Keepers for ten years. Described as being akin to a whisky knighthood Michael received the accolade from the international Keeper of the Quaich Society after having spent 26 years as a distributor, educator and retailer of whisky in New Zealand. Keepers of the Quaich are an exclusive nonprofit society based in Scotland, membership is by invitation only, for people with a positive record of association with
Scotch whisky. The society is named for the Quaich, a shallow, two-handled cup that has been Scotland’s traditional drinking vessel for centuries. “Each generation of distillers and master blenders in Scotland are really producing for the next generation. A lot of the whisky they produce they'll never taste. It’s a remarkable, interesting commitment,” Michael noted. Michael is originally from the Strathisla region of Scotland and whisky ‘is in his blood’, with his father (and great uncle) brokering whisky soon after he left school in 1938. His father’s company, HL Milne, consequently sold malting barley seed and barley to distillers. This notable recognition comes more than a quarter of a century after Michael first established an importing business to distribute single malt Scotch whisky around New Zealand.
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