When it comes to veterans of the whisky industry, Glen Grant’s Dennis Malcolm leaps to mind as someone who has spent his entire life almost literally immersed in whisky. This year he celebrates his 60th…
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Posted on 31 January 2022 by Ning
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What to drink in 2022
Posted on 17 January 2022 by Dawn
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At the moment there are a lot of articles around talking about the trends for 2022. Like any other drinks retailer, we are also conscious of what is happening out there in the big wide…
Continue reading »The Whisky Exchange Last-Minute Gift Guide
Posted on 16 December 2021 by Joe
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Need inspiration for that special bottle? Looking for a last minute stocking filler? Absolutely no idea what to get for secret Santa? Well fear not, because the always publishable Whisky Exchange Christmas gift guide is…
Continue reading »Win our biggest-ever tasting set – The Perfect Measure giveaway
Posted on 26 November 2021 by Billy
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You may have noticed that Christmas is approaching. While we’ve got loads of great things happening on our website – and you can find them through our Christmas page – we also have lots going…
Continue reading »Halloween approaches – spooky shops and (non) gruesome gifts
Posted on 27 October 2021 by Billy
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Halloween is almost here, and this year, after 18 months of intermittent lockdowns and closures, our shop teams want to do some celebrating. If you head down to see them this weekend they might have…
Continue reading »Diageo Special Releases 2021 – Legends Untold
Posted on 30 September 2021 by Billy
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While the past year has been a strange one, there are some things that have rolled on barely affected. One of those is the yearly Diageo Special Releases. They popped up on time in 2020…
Continue reading »Whisky Show Bottlings 2021 – Adventures in Flavour
Posted on 28 September 2021 by Billy
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Whisky Show is almost upon us again. It’s our lucky 13th show – 12th in person – and the first year where we are combining our traditional weekend of whisky at Old Billingsgate with a…
Continue reading »Everything You Need To Know About Whisky (but are too afraid to ask)
Posted on 9 August 2021 by Billy
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After more than a year of planning, months of writing and weeks of proofreading, we are very proud to announce the launch of a very special project: our first-ever book – Everything You Need To…
Continue reading »Virtual Tastings – August 2021
Posted on 29 July 2021 by Billy
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We’ve had a bit of time off our virtual tastings recently – with bars reopening we want to encourage folks to (safely) get back out there. However, in August we’ve got a tasting that we…
Continue reading »Where to drink whisky outside in London: April 2021
Posted on 30 April 2021 by Caroline
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In a month where we’re all rediscovering our love of lolling about with friends in beer gardens, we wanted to highlight some of the places where you can also sip a dram or two in…
Continue reading »Singleton of Glen Ord 38 Year Old and The Singleton range
Posted on 28 April 2021 by Billy
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The Singleton range of single malt whiskies is available around the world, but is often misunderstood. With the recent arrival of the Singleton of Glen Ord 38 Year Old at The Whisky Exchange, we thought…
Continue reading »New Exclusive: Caol Ila 2005 15yo Refill Sherry Cask #301507 Connoisseurs Choice
Posted on 26 April 2021 by Billy
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We’ve spent the past year lining up great exclusive releases to appear over the coming months, and the latest bottle has just landed: a specially selected refill-sherry cask, bottled for us by the team at…
Continue reading »Virtual Tastings – May 2021
Posted on 23 April 2021 by Billy
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It’s almost May and we have more virtual tastings on the cards. We’re kicking off with a tasting of Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte and Octomore with header distiller Adam Hannett; and following that with a dive…
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Posted on 24 March 2021 by Billy
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We’re almost done with March, so it’s time to announce our April virtual tastings. This month we’ve got a couple – a taste through the Elixir Distillers’ Whisky Trail and a secret one that we’ll…
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Posted on 24 February 2021 by Billy
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March rapidly approaches, and with it a pair of excellent virtual tastings – a deep dive into the world of fortified wine with our tame MW, and some very sought-after whiskies from the Macallan… March’s…
Continue reading »New Japanese Whisky Labelling Standards
Posted on 16 February 2021 by Billy
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Whisky has been made in Japan for almost 100 years, but until recently it has been relatively unknown. The huge growth outside of Japan in the past few years has started to show cracks in…
Continue reading »Clynelish 1999 21 Years of Friendship – Sukhinder Singh & Toru Suzuki
Posted on 10 February 2021 by Billy
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While we finished celebrating our 20th birthday at the end of last year, it’s not the only anniversary that deserves some attention. Over the past couple of decades, we’ve met many whisky people from around…
Continue reading »New Exclusives: Edradour and Ballechin sherry casks
Posted on 9 February 2021 by Billy
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We’ve been working with the team at Edradour to release excellent exclusive single cask bottlings of whisky for years, and our latest pair of whiskies has arrived – an 11-year-old Edradour and a 14-year-old Ballechin,…
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Excellent recipes. I've bought a bottle of Baron Sigognac 10, and I'm a little under-whelmed, so I thought "cocktails" but there aren't many.
Posted on: 24 December 2021
We do run monthly competitions – often more than one a month – exclusively for our online customers, including one recently that
Good to see The Whisky Exchange only values it's London customers, maybe I should buy from other online suppliers who may value my business more than TWE in 2022.
Posted on: 17 December 2021
Not quite yet, but we'll be looking to restart them as soon as we're comfortable that we can do so safely. In the meantime, we do have Whisky Show in a few weeks, both in person and virtual:...
Posted on: 9 September 2021
Just wondered, any in shop tastings planned soon?
Posted on: 9 September 2021