I hope by now you have received your Friends special bottling of Cairdeas 12 year old. However I do wish to sincerely apologise to you for the time it has taken to reach you. Every year we get hundreds of letters from disappointed Friends who did not manage to obtain one at all. Also this year, bearing the global recession in mind, I decided to keep the price the same as the previous year. It seems that the combination of these two factors led to a rush for the online shop that I simply did not forecast. The 4,000 special bottles were all sold to Friends in three and a half days! Whereas I had expected them to sell through over a 30 day period.
The result was we just could not cope. I only had 2 girls doing the all the addressing, labeling and packing (they also do our 2 daily tours of the distillery). Fortunately we have just started our "silent season" and I was able to put some of the distillery men onto packing duties! None the less it was our mistake.
By way of a practical apology I am offering you £5 off your next purchase of anything in our online shop (above your usual "friends" discount). I will be putting extra staff on from day one next year to avoid any repetition of this. As soon as you make your next order your discount will automatically be added.
I really hope you enjoy this Cairdeas as I selected it myself and trust you feel it was worth the wait.
Orkade inte vänta längre utan ringde till dom och fick tracking number på lådan. Och när jag kollade på parcelforce hemsida så hade dom skickat paketet redan den 2/7 och lådan har varit i Sverige och vänt och är på väg tillbaka pga Unacceptable goods. Så vi får väl se vart det slutar?
Men jag tänker på alla er som inte fått något ännu, det kanske är samma visa där. Bara en liten fundering!