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Islay drops the whisky barrel from 5000ft on Thursday 14th

newsroom published this on 9:41 am, Saturday, 9th August, 2008
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Local charities on Argyll’s Isle of Islay will benefit from a highly inventive fund raising event. The island has a Spot the Whisky Barrel competition where, for £25 a ticket, entrants guess exactly where the whisky barrell will finish up after it’s dropped from an aircraft at 5000ft. The drop will take place on Thursday 14th. The barrell will drift for five minutes. Then three independent judges will plot its position. Tickets were sold online and entries have come from all over the world. Imagination rules - and all credit to Ronald Worthington-Eyre who had the idea..

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2 Responses to “Islay drops the whisky barrel from 5000ft on Thursday 14th”

  1. Spot the parachute-jumping whisky barrel on Islay | The Whisky Grotto Says:

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  2. Argyll News: Argyll,charity,fundraising: Great disappointment as Islay cancels the Whisky Barrel Drop | For Argyll Says:

    [...] way to raise money for local charities. It is very disappointing that the organisers of the Whisky Barrel Drop we wrote about recently have had to cancel the event. They had only sold one thousand of the much [...]

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