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Posted on 27 March 2013 by Tim F
Once again, TWE were in full effect at last weekend’s Whisky Live in London, which was held in its now-traditional location of Armoury House, home of the British Army’s oldest regiment, the Honourable Artillery Company…
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Posted on 25 March 2013 by Billy
A year and a bit since the first release in the series, the second entry in the Valhalla Collection has arrived – Highland Park Loki. The makeup of Loki was conceived around the same time…
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Posted on 22 March 2013 by Billy
The more attentive amongst you may have noticed that one thing we’ve not yet done much trumpeting about is our yearly whisky show. Well, let the trumpeting begin – we’re back at Vinopolis on October…
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Posted on 20 March 2013 by Billy
We don’t often do ‘repeats’ at our monthly masterclasses. With over 100 distilleries in Scotland, and even more outside of the fabled north we try to mix things up a bit. However, sometimes we give…
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Posted on 18 March 2013 by Tim F
Never say we’re not good to you. TWE have teamed up with Glendronach to bring you a very special heavily sherried single cask. Bottled in March 2013, Cask #4682 was distilled on 8th November 1995 and…
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Posted on 15 March 2013 by Billy
While Tim and I often take on the role of roving reporters when it comes to our Vinopolis tastings, it’s not only us who make it along from HQ to ‘help out’. However, back at…
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Posted on 12 March 2013 by Tim F
An Cnoc is the single malt from Knockdhu distillery, and although it’s relatively low profile compared to some other Speyside malts, they’ve been quietly producing very good whiskies for some time now. Certainly the 16 year old…
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Posted on 11 March 2013 by Billy
With Whisky Live London only a few weeks away we’ve been getting ready to run the on-site whisky shop. We’ve been looking through who’ll be exhibiting to make sure we bring along all the bottles…
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Posted on 6 March 2013 by Tim F
[Welcome to the fifth part of TWE’s trip to Japan last year. You can read the earlier instalments in this saga of inter-continental dramming here, here, here and here.] The town of Karuizawa is an…
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Posted on 4 March 2013 by Billy
As we’ve seen over the last year the world of craft distilling is exploding. They’ve been seeing the fruits of the expansion over in the USA for a while but there are two big challenges…
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Posted on: 26 October 2023
Such a pity that the distillery was destroyed. I had the great luck to try one of these, to me almost magic, Karuizawas. It was a 1972/2008, 36y, #7290 with 65%. Since today I have memoriesof this...
Posted on: 17 October 2023