Category Archives: WHISKY & WHISKEY
TWE in Japan – Karuizawa Trip Pt.3
[Tim and Sukhinder's sojourn in Japan continues at Chichibu with an epic tasting of dozens of full-strength single cask Karuizawas… you can read about their earlier adventures on the trip here and here.] After our fascinating tour of Chichibu we … Continue reading
Balvenie, a crafty bunch
The folks at Balvenie have been a bit busy recently. In fact, that seems to be the way I start off most posts about them, so I suspect the ‘recently’ is more of a ‘for the last couple of years’. … Continue reading
North British 50 year Old – Douglas Laing’s Directors’ Cut
North British distillery has been in the news recently and unfortunately it’s not been due to whisky. Happily it was announced last week that the distillery’s cooling towers were not the source of a Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak that recently hit … Continue reading
Our Shop is Moving! (temporarily)
The summer is upon us and with it there is an unnamed sporting event happening in our capital. That, along with a chunk of serious building work, means that Vinopolis, the home of our shop these last 7 years, will … Continue reading
Glen Garioch Tasting at TWE Vinopolis
We had a great tasting of the full delights of Glen Garioch at TWE Vinopolis the other week. Iain McCallum, Morrison Bowmore’s Malt Master, regaled us with tales of traumatic hangover breakfasts, an unfortunate incident with a boiler, and how he … Continue reading
Copper Fox Rye
We’ve had a bunch of American Whiskey’s arrive at TWE Towers recently, with limited edition Jack Daniel’s, big bottles of Bulleit Rye, Wild Turkey 81 and a selection of old bottles all turning up in the last few months. However … Continue reading
The Whisky Exchange – Independent Retailer of the Year 2012
We’re delighted to announce that The Whisky Exchange has scooped another gong! At the UK’s biggest drinks trade event, the London International Wine Fair held in Excel last week, TWE was named as Independent Retailer of the Year at the prestigious Drinks Business … Continue reading
New at TWE – Wemyss Malts
We’re always looking for new and interesting whiskies to put on our shelves here at TWE but somehow we’ve managed to have a hole in our independents lineup around the W-mark. But no longer, as we now have the Wemyss … Continue reading
Ardbeg Day at TWE Vinopolis
Fèis Ìle, the Islay Festival of Malt and Music, will be upon us shortly and despite our shop being almost as far from Islay as you can get while still being in the UK (as the crow flies) we wanted … Continue reading
TWE Karuizawa Whisky Trip Pt.2: Karuizawa Casks and Chichibu distillery
This is the second instalment of Tim F’s report on TWE blog’s recent Karuizawa & Chichibu whisky trip to Japan. You can read part 1 here. The following morning, refreshed after a sound night’s sleep but still occasionally feeling the … Continue reading
The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show 2012 – Tickets Now On Sale
We’re delighted to announce that The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show (the UK’s greatest whisky tasting event in our thoroughly biased opinion) will be returning to Vinopolis on 6th-7th October 2012 – and tickets are on sale now! As ever, this … Continue reading
English Whisky at TWE Vinopolis
While we’re busy running around at HQ finishing up some SEKRIT PROJECTS (of which more will be heard shortly…) the folks down at our Vinopolis shop have been continuing running their series of rather excellent tastings, celebrating St George’s Day … Continue reading
Great post! Looks like an absolute ripper of an ev...