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Autumn Inspiration!
  
Our new shop in York is OPEN! Read the full story below. We all need a good perk up now and again, especially when the seasons change suddenly on us and we lose our precious Summer! Well a little Autumn inspiration is here with our FREE* Autumn mail order delivery offer so that you can take advantage of the arrival of our exciting new Grapefruit Vodka Liqueur 20%, the start of the Sloe Gin 20% season and our beautifully presented new Apotheker 200ml bottle racks! All are great for dinner parties or as gift ideas. So why not be a really early bird and crack your christmas presents right now in one calm fell  swoop with a FREE* delivery? Choose from a number of pre-made rack sets including our Single Malt Whisky Selection, Scottish Selection, Winter Liqueur Selection or for the foodie our Olive Oil & Fruit Vinegar Selection. Simply spend over £45 on any of our product range online before 30th October 2009 and we will deliver your order FREE* of charge. *Terms & conditions apply to offer of course, please click for full details. If you get stuck, then simply email the details to info@demijohn.co.uk or call us on +44(0)141 3373600 and we will be more than happy to help.
to order any of our products either visit our new Demijohn Online Shop or call us on +44 (0)141 3373600
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Demijohn News - September & October 2009
 Our News: With the successful opening of our new shop at 11 Museum Street in York last month, which was covered extensively by both The Press and The Yorkshire Post, September simply passed me by in a blinding flash of light. I arrived into October with hair like a hippy, bones aching like a stone mason and a wish to remember what feeling bored was actually like! Funnily enough, Frances, after looking after our 3 children and 2 dogs, had a similar if not more wearying experience than mine. Although this could at least be in part to do with the arrival of 4 hens and a kitten
  called Toffee while I was away! The party in York really started at noon on launch day on Wed 16th Sept, with the arrival at our new shop front door of the Lord Mayor of York and the Lady Mayoress. Played in to ribbon cutting position by our very capable Scots Guards Piper, Sgt Draper, the Lord Mayor, John Galvin, kindly pronouced us open for business as 100's gathered to witness the spectacle. Smiling like a cheshire cat, I escorted our Honoured guests around our shiny new shelves and shop, touching, talking and tasting as  we went. Finally, while getting stuck into some of our single malts, the Lord Mayor decided where his heart lay. And so a bottle of Caol Ila was presented to help keep morale high in the Lord Mayor's residence for a few months at least. We are very grateful to both the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress for taking the time to come and visit us, they will always be welcome at Demijohn. Certainly, should the Lord Mayor's bottle run dry, at least he knows where he can get a refill! A series of really fun launch Tasting Evenings then followed over the next few days, with great attendance from many of our enthusiastic Yorkshire customers. We intend to run more tasting evenings in all our shops at some stage in the future, so if you are not able to gather a group of 10 friends and colleagues and would like to be included on any future sponsored nights, please send me note by email to info@demijohn.co.uk with your name and your contact details.
Product News
If you are still reading this part of our newlsetter then I know you are a committed Demijohn fan and you deserve the reward that this piece of text  might bring! We are to run our first competition, and the sooner you enter the greater the chance you have of winning. We are looking for new products from new producing talent in Britain and this could be your chance to shine! This has been an excellent year for all kinds of fruit, so a good moment to get creative in the kitchen! The Competition: To make a first class British fruit liqueur. The Prize: A fabulous Demijohn Medium Hamper worth £100 to be awarded on St. Valentines Day 2010. Deadline for Entries: 1st February 2010. Simple Rules: Applications for entry must be made by email to info@demijohn and include the following details: 1) A contact name, 2) A valid email address, 3) Liqueur type entered (i.e. Sloe Gin), 4) A valid telephone number, 5) A valid UK address with postcode for delivery of the prize  should you win, 6) Agreement to be contacted by Demijohn for promotional purposes. A sample of no less than 100ml in size of your British fruit liqueur entry should then be delivered to us at Demijohn, Mail Order Dept., 382 Byres Road Glasgow, G12 8AR. Both email and sample must be received by us by 23.59hrs on Mon 1st Feb 2010 in order to be successfully entered into the competition. A judging panel consisting of a minimum of 3 members of the Demijohn Staff will be used to decide the winning entry and their decision will be final. Marks will be awarded for originality and quality and on that basis alone. The winning entrant will be informed by post and email prior to their prize being despatched for receipt on or after 14th Feb 2010. Demijohn reserves the right to use the liqueur for commericial and promotional purposes. The competiton is open for entry to all persons over 18 years of age other than Demijohn employees. The prize is as stated and no cash alternative will be offered.
 So, let the liqueur competition commence! And finally....for all the gin fans out there, we now have Blackwood's 40% and 60% Vintage Gins back in stock at long last. Also back on the shelves are our beautiful Mystic 100ml stacking bottles and their boxes which this year will remain available all the way to Christmas (unless we sell out of course!).
Coming soon: In the pipeline, some new and fruity liqueurs. More in the next newsletter.
Event News
Christmas fair season is already upon us after we completed the wonderful Children's 1st Fair at Coo Cathedral in the grounds of Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire. So from this, the most Northerly event, I am bracing myself for the rest of the line up as follows and hope we can catch up with you at one or all of them:
BBC Good Food Show at SECC in Glasgow 30 Oct - 1 Nov 09, Stand D120
Castle Howard Christmas Fair, York 5 & 6 Nov 09
Chuffs Extavaganza at Oxenfoord Castle, Midlothian 10 - 12 Nov 09
CLIC Sargent Christmas Fair, Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries 16 & 17 Nov 09
Country Living Christmas Fair, SECC Glasgow 19-22 Nov 09, Stand G51
BBC Good Food Show at NEC in Birmingham 25-29 Nov 09, Stand H40
The Kibble Palace Christmas Fair, Glasgow Botanical Gardens 1 & 2 Dec 09
 Our last event of 2009 may well be our most exciting, as it is a brand new event for Scotland, the West End of Glasgow and for us. The Kibble Palace Christmas Fair will be held in the architecturally and botanically awe inspiring glasshouse of Glasgow's famous Botanic Gardens. First built by John Kibble in the 1860's, the glasshouse has been a constant source of fascination by all those who visit it and is a must see for any keen gardener. The fair, in aid of Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, will start with drinks by Demijohn on Tue 1st Dec between 5.30 to 8.30pm and run between 10am to 4pm on Wed 2nd Dec. Tickets will be available on the door, however for more details please email the organiser Chuffs at nettiehc@yahoo.co.uk
Staff News
York has brought new life to the staffing plot at Demijohn, as we try to cope  under the tidal wave of applications for employment with us. The York team is now led by our new Shop Manager Hollie Reid and ably assisted by Amelia Pace. Both Hollie and Amelia incredibly agreed to up sticks and move to York lock stock and barrel in order to help start our new shop, what commitment to the cause! Trained in part by Alastair Simpson our Edinburgh Shop Manager the team developed quickly to become an effective force within days. We welcome warmly the two newest members to the York team, Jimi Jibodu and Julia McKinlay. Both have just recently graduated and are fast learing to cope with the reign of Queen Hollie and the quirk that we are, we wish them luck! Thankyou to all those who have applied for a job with us. Regretably we can only respond to a few of the 100's of application we have received this year, however all are considered. So, if you are really keen, my advice would be to swot up on what we do and keep applying, you just never know your luck!
Do let me know if you have any great ideas or suggestions about us, whether good or bad, as I am all ears. Simply email me at info@demijohn.co.uk and I think you will be surprised when I respond! If you Twitter, I still do (rather erratically!), visit http://twitter.com/demijohnthedeli for my updates.
Angus Ferguson
Managing Director
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