A press release lands on our doormat with a small bottle. Not an unusual occurrence; but this is a far from usual bottle, as it contains no less than Highland Park 40 year old. I…
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Posted on 21 October 2013 by Tim F
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Discover Mezcal at TWE
Posted on 18 October 2013 by Tim F
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In the latest of our TWE super-features (following on from our great Vodka exploration and follow-up on continuous distillation a couple of months ago), I’ve spent some time discovering the rich history of mezcal, Mexico’s…
Continue reading »The Macallan 1824 Series and Macallan M
Posted on 17 October 2013 by Billy
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We’ve alluded to the Macallan’s recently released 1824 Series a few times in recent blog posts, but we’ve not really had a chance to sit down and properly dig in to what the range offers….
Continue reading »TWE Whisky Show 2013: The Report
Posted on 11 October 2013 by Tim F
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Phew! The Whisky Show is finally over for another year. This was our biggest and best Show yet, with dozens of exhibitors serving over 500 different spirits (not all of them were whisky…) in an…
Continue reading »The Whisky Exchange Shop's 8th Birthday
Posted on 10 October 2013 by Billy
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Before we get on to tooting our own trumpets about our recent Whisky Show, we’ve got something else to celebrate that’s been pushed to the side because of that very same show. Back at the…
Continue reading »London Cocktail Week – Time To Get Excited
Posted on 4 October 2013 by Tim F
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So, it’s finally Whisky Show Eve. This is a day that at TWE generally involves lots of running around doing last-minute checks, affixing labels to bottles, amending enormous spreadsheets and general fretting about whether there’s…
Continue reading »Whisky Show Bottlings, and a trip to Signatory
Posted on 3 October 2013 by Tim F
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Ah, Signatory. Finally the secret can be revealed. Some time ago, back in April in fact, a delegation from TWE made a trip up to Scotland, to Pitlochry and Elgin, on a secret mission. The…
Continue reading »Compass Box of Delilah-ights
Posted on 20 September 2013 by Tim F
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So today we have three new Compass Box goodies to have a go at, which is great because, remarkably, this week marks the fifth year since The Whisky Exchange Whisky Blog (snappy title) first slithered…
Continue reading »Classic Book Reviews: Whisky by Aeneas MacDonald
Posted on 19 September 2013 by Tim F
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Today’s review is of one of the most important, most-revered books about whisky ever written, Whisky by Aeneas Macdonald, which was first published in an edition of 1600 copies by Porpoise Press in 1930. My…
Continue reading »Tasting Notes: Tomatin Cù Bòcan
Posted on 16 September 2013 by Tim F
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Tomatin has crept under the radar recently to become something of the hipster-namecheck distillery of the moment. This unexpected turn of events is probably down to a number of factors which include the revamp of…
Continue reading »Enter The Dragon: St. George's Chapter 13
Posted on 13 September 2013 by Tim F
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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…
Continue reading »Glenfarclas 1953 Queen's Coronation Decanter
Posted on 11 September 2013 by Tim F
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It’s difficult to believe that Her Maj has been sixty years on the throne. But on 2nd June 1953, Elizabeth Windsor was crowned Sovereign of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth territories in Westminster Abbey. A…
Continue reading »Classic Book Reviews: Scotch by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart
Posted on 6 September 2013 by Tim F
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Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart was a very interesting man. His book, Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story, appeared in 1951 when its author was in his sixties and approaching the twilight of…
Continue reading »Final Whisky Show 2013 Masterclass Announced
Posted on 4 September 2013 by Billy
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This year’s Whisky Show is rather a lot busier than in previous years. We’ve got more ‘stuff’ going on each day than ever before, with complete details appearing on the website next week, and an…
Continue reading »Chase Vodka Tasting at TWE Vinopolis
Posted on 30 August 2013 by Billy
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From time to time we seem to veer a little away from whisky at TWE HQ and this has definitely been one of those fortnights. Along with our TWE Guide To Vodka that went up…
Continue reading »Lagavulin Presents Islay Jazz in London!
Posted on 28 August 2013 by Tim F
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As you may already be aware, each year since 1999 there has been a festival of jazz in Islay. This is not to be confused with the annual Feis Ile, aka the Islay Festival of Music…
Continue reading »Vodka and Grain Whisky: Continuous Distillation
Posted on 27 August 2013 by Tim F
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A week or two ago I was writing the text for our shiny (and, of course, fascinating) new TWE Guide to Vodka, and while trying to explain the process of continuous distillation I went into too much…
Continue reading »Classic Book Reviews: Whisky Tales by Charles MacLean
Posted on 21 August 2013 by Tim F
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First published in 2006, Charles MacLean’s Whisky Tales is an expanded version of his hugely popular MacLean’s Miscellany of Whisky, which had first appeared two years earlier and is today more widely disseminated and easier…
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Unfortunately, the answer is 'between 400g and 2000g per litre' :)
Posted on: 9 October 2024
What ratio of Sloe to gin is used, I see anything from 400 to 2000g of sloe to 1 litre of gin!
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What really makes Bob Harris' predicament in 'Lost In Translation' so absurdly funny is that he nailed it in one take, and the director just couldn't accept that.
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I'd say there's not a lot between them. I'd say that the techniques used to make the rum change the flavour more than the raw material between molasses and cane honey, so it'll be other factors that...
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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...
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