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Posted on 1 June 2011 by Tim F
Just arrived – our very special single sherry cask 1982 Port Ellen Royal Wedding Reserve! We mentioned this in our earlier guide to Royal Wedding whiskies, so let’s try and give you an idea of…
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Posted on 31 May 2011 by Billy
After years of quietly sipping away at their whiskies, and occasionally selling a bottle or three, we are very proud to announce that The Whisky Exchange at Vinopolis has been invited to become an official…
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Posted on 26 May 2011 by Billy
The folks over at William Grant & Sons like a bit of interesting marketing. Their portfolio stretches outside of the world of whisky, with both Hendrick’s and Sailor Jerry Rum on the books, and over…
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Posted on 23 May 2011 by Hector
We were honoured to welcome Meimi Sanchez from Havana Club at a recent tasting in TWE Vinopolis, and Hector from the shop has been good enough to write up the event for TWE Blog –…
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Posted on 13 May 2011 by Billy
As the new boy here at TWE Towers the time has come that I must reveal myself to the world via a blog post. Hello, I am Billy. I’m a former computer programmer turned whisky…
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Posted on 11 May 2011 by Tim F
We’ve got some exciting news about The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show today on TWE Blog, as I’m announcing the first of this year’s Masterclasses! And you’d better strap yourselves in, because it’s a stunner… To maintain…
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Posted on 21 April 2011 by Tim F
Hi Folks, Just a quick heads-up that tickets for The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show are now on sale from ticketsource.co.uk! Click here to get yours: http://www.whisky-show.com/whisky-show-2011-tickets Don’t hang around, as advance interest has been very…
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Posted on 15 April 2011 by Tim F
Ok, we’re doing something a bit different today on The Whisky Exchange Blog – a collaborative post! Yes, this particular blog on forty year-old whisky has been written by myself AND Sukhinder: he’s supplied the…
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Posted on 4 April 2011 by Tim F
Such was the (possibly apocryphal) advertisement with which Ernest Shackleton was said to have recruited team members for his unsuccessful Antarctic trip, which began in 1907 and ended in 1909 as encroaching sea ice…
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Posted on 30 March 2011 by Tim F
So, unless you’re one of those lucky people who live in a cave or on top of a pillar of stone without access to a decent Wi-Fi signal, it’s unlikely to have escaped your attention that in a…
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Posted on 25 February 2011 by Tim F
It’s fair to say that I’ve had a good week. On Monday I was lucky enough to attend a fantastic Compass Box tasting at TWE Vinopolis, hosted by head honcho John Glaser, who took the rapt crowd…
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Posted on 17 February 2011 by Tim F
Some TWE news today – most of you will be aware that The Whisky Exchange have been involved for the last two years as organisers of The Whisky Show, in partnership with Graeme Wallace of…
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Posted on 14 February 2011 by Tim F
Update: The bad times are past and we now deliver to Germany again. See over here for a blog post all about it (and some tasty tax related shenanigans which mean that German orders have…
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Posted on 1 February 2011 by Tim F
Chivas have launched a new range of cask strength single malts from extinct distilleries to compliment the Cask Strength Edition bottlings from their active distilleries. ‘Deoch an Doras’ translates roughly as ‘a drink at the door’…
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Posted on 20 January 2011 by Tim F
Hello all, and welcome to the new look TWE Blog! The Whisky Exchange’s resident design bod has tarted up the blog’s look and we now feel like some sort of internet whisky blog dandy in a…
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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