Browsing Posts in: World Whisky
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10 February 2016 by Billy
Behind the scenes, The Whisky Exchange is a very international company. We have people from all over the world throughout the business, from Spanish web developers to Romanian photographers, Portuguese designers, Finnish spirits advisers and even…
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22 January 2016 by Billy
Australian whisky is on the up. This is far from a new thing, with Sullivans Cove French Oak picking up the World’s Best Whisky award at the World Whiskies Awards in 2014 and more distilleries…
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6 January 2016 by Billy
2015 was as busy as ever, with loads of new drinks appearing on our shelves and more customers than ever before – thank you for making it such a success. It’s now 2016, and that…
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31 December 2015 by Alex
Ten years after opening in London Bridge, our Vinopolis store closed for the last time on Christmas Eve. We will be announcing its replacement very soon in the same part of town, and in the…
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21 October 2015 by Oliver
In 2006, father-and-son team James and Andrew Nelstrop opened the first stand-alone single malt whisky distillery in England since the closure of Lea Valley Distillery in 1903. James had always dreamed of making whisky and…
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18 September 2015 by Rocky
Every sport has that jaw-dropping moment (inevitably with matching commentary) that stays in the memory for years to come. For football it’s Kenneth Wolstenholme and the fourth goal in the 1966 World Cup Final; there’s Michael…
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17 June 2015 by Rocky
Whisky has long been a favourite drink in Germany, but it took until 2002 for the first native single malt to be released. At that point there were only three distilleries producing whisky (today there…
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14 May 2015 by Oliver
Last year, I received half-a-dozen samples of Dutch rye whisky. They varied considerably, in terms of cask type, age and number of distillations, but what they all had in common was the amazing amount of…
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4 March 2015 by Billy
The expansion of whisk(e)y production continues apace. With more than 500 distilleries now operational in the US, and many Old World distillers expanding their ranges to include grain spirit, the future is awash with whisky. One…
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5 February 2015 by Billy
Over the past year, we’ve had a nice selection of whiskies exclusive to The Whisky Exchange. We’ve had a few trips up to Scotland to wander around warehouses and sit in meeting rooms; nosing, tasting and selecting whiskies that will have our name on. However, we’ve not recently ventured outside of the UK, a situation that has now changed with our latest exclusive: Millstone 2004 Dutch Single Rye Whisky cask #667.
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17 December 2014 by Rocky
With all the romance of whisky, it’s easy to forget that distilleries are, in essence, factories, and production is just cold, hard science. One distillery that takes an extraordinarily scientific approach is Sweden’s Spirit of…
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18 November 2014 by Billy
As mentioned on the blog previously, we’ve recently run a prize draw with our friends at Paul John: everyone who bought a bottle of Edited, Brilliance, Peated Selected Cask or the Classic Select Cask was entered…
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30 October 2014 by Rocky
This year I decided to overcome the post-Whisky Show blues by visiting a distillery (and a country) that’s been on my bucket list for a few years – Sweden’s Mackmyra. ‘The founders wanted to create a whisky…
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8 October 2014 by Billy
We like parties at TWE, and one excuse for a shindig that we we get involved with every year is Diwali – the Festival of Lights. A celebration of the triumph of light over darkness, the sky…
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27 August 2014 by Oliver
Some time ago, while taking a whisky cruise from Stockholm, I came across the lovely guys at Box Distillery in Sweden. On my return home, I decided to have a try of their first educational…
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7 August 2014 by Billy
While there are numerous books about whisky, there are surprisingly few about how to make it, and even fewer about how the whisky industry itself looks at whisky as a thing to be sold. There…
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15 April 2014 by Andy
I’m a big fan of gin. Some may regard pasta and milk as essential household items, but my house feels empty without a bottle or two of gin in it. Recently I’ve been playing around…
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13 September 2013 by Tim F
St George’s distillery have been releasing their whiskies as Chapters for a few years now. It’s a pleasing conceit: each release takes the story of the development of England’s first malt whisky distillery in 300…
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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