Our Pop-up shop…it lives…

No Comments on Our Pop-up shop…it lives…

Following on from my last post on the subject, our temporary shop (only around the corner from our traditional location in Vinopolis) is now fully armed and operational. We’ll be there while Vinopolis is rebuilt/refurbished…

Continue reading »

Ted Breaux, Jade Liqueurs and the Green Fairy

No Comments on Ted Breaux, Jade Liqueurs and the Green Fairy

I like absinthe. I’ve outed myself as an absinthe fan in public on a number of occasions, and over the years, slowly but surely, it seems that people are coming around to the idea that…

Continue reading »

TWE in Japan – Karuizawa Trip Pt.3

10 Comments on 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…

Continue reading »

Balvenie, a crafty bunch

2 Comments on 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…

Continue reading »

Tasting AE Dor and Grosperrin Cognac with Ed Bates

No Comments on Tasting AE Dor and Grosperrin Cognac with Ed Bates

This month’s first tasting down at our Shop was another stepping out of the confines of grain spirits, this time into the world of boiled wine, specifically cognac. We were joined by Mousquetaire d’Armagnac and…

Continue reading »

North British 50 year Old – Douglas Laing's Directors' Cut

No Comments on 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…

Continue reading »

Website Maintenance – Sunday June 24th

No Comments on Website Maintenance – Sunday June 24th

Just a quick note that The Whisky Exchange website will be down from midnight to 8am on Sunday June 24th for maintenance.   We’ll stop accepting orders shortly before midnight, to give people a chance…

Continue reading »

Our Shop is Moving! (temporarily)

1 Comment on 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…

Continue reading »

Glen Garioch Tasting at TWE Vinopolis

2 Comments on 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…

Continue reading »

Copper Fox Rye

2 Comments on Copper Fox Rye

We’ve had a host of American whiskeys 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…

Continue reading »

Cinco de Mayo at TWE Vinopolis

1 Comment on Cinco de Mayo at TWE Vinopolis

Most of my blog posts recently seem to have started off with a “there are other spirits in the world that aren’t whisky” type of sentiment, which is getting a bit long in the tooth….

Continue reading »

World Gin Day 2012

2 Comments on World Gin Day 2012

Some say it tastes of petrol; others like it with tonic; a few of us even like drinking it on its own. I am of course speaking of gin, the finest juniper-led spirit of our…

Continue reading »

The Whisky Exchange – Independent Retailer of the Year 2012

No Comments on 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…

Continue reading »

New at TWE – Wemyss Malts

No Comments on 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…

Continue reading »

Ardbeg Day at TWE Vinopolis

8 Comments on 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…

Continue reading »

TWE Karuizawa Whisky Trip Pt.2: Karuizawa Casks and Chichibu distillery

5 Comments on 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…

Continue reading »

The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show 2012 – Tickets Now On Sale

1 Comment on 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…

Continue reading »

English Whisky at TWE Vinopolis

No Comments on 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…

Continue reading »
Showing page
45 of 55

Subscribe by email

ArchivesFull Archives »

Scroll To Top

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. more information

The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this. Find out more

Close