A year and a bit since the first release in the series, the second entry in the Valhalla Collection has arrived – Highland Park Loki. The makeup of Loki was conceived around the same time…
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Posted on 25 March 2013 by Billy
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The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show 2013 – Tickets on sale now!
Posted on 22 March 2013 by Billy
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The more attentive amongst you may have noticed that one thing we’ve not yet done much trumpeting about is our yearly whisky show. Well, let the trumpeting begin – we’re back at Vinopolis on October…
Continue reading »Tasting Balblair at TWE Vinopolis with John MacDonald
Posted on 20 March 2013 by Billy
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We don’t often do ‘repeats’ at our monthly masterclasses. With over 100 distilleries in Scotland, and even more outside of the fabled north we try to mix things up a bit. However, sometimes we give…
Continue reading »Tasting Notes: Glendronach 1995 PX Cask Exclusive to TWE
Posted on 18 March 2013 by Tim F
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Never say we’re not good to you. TWE have teamed up with Glendronach to bring you a very special heavily sherried single cask. Bottled in March 2013, Cask #4682 was distilled on 8th November 1995 and…
Continue reading »Rum and Cognac…together?
Posted on 15 March 2013 by Billy
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While Tim and I often take on the role of roving reporters when it comes to our Vinopolis tastings, it’s not only us who make it along from HQ to ‘help out’. However, back at…
Continue reading »Tasting Notes: An Cnoc 22 Year Old
Posted on 12 March 2013 by Tim F
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An Cnoc is the single malt from Knockdhu distillery, and although it’s relatively low profile compared to some other Speyside malts, they’ve been quietly producing very good whiskies for some time now. Certainly the 16 year old…
Continue reading »Kavalan Fino and King Car Conductor
Posted on 11 March 2013 by Billy
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With Whisky Live London only a few weeks away we’ve been getting ready to run the on-site whisky shop. We’ve been looking through who’ll be exhibiting to make sure we bring along all the bottles…
Continue reading »TWE in Japan – Karuizawa Trip Pt.5
Posted on 6 March 2013 by Tim F
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[Welcome to the fifth part of TWE’s trip to Japan last year. You can read the earlier instalments in this saga of inter-continental dramming here, here, here and here.] The town of Karuizawa is an…
Continue reading »Tasting Notes: FEW Spirits
Posted on 4 March 2013 by Billy
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As we’ve seen over the last year the world of craft distilling is exploding. They’ve been seeing the fruits of the expansion over in the USA for a while but there are two big challenges…
Continue reading »Lost Distilleries at TWE Vinopolis
Posted on 15 February 2013 by Billy
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The new year is definitely under way and our tastings at TWE Vinopolis have entered a new phase. Over the last few years we’ve been focused heavily on branded tastings, with companies showing off their…
Continue reading »Glenmorangie Ealanta
Posted on 5 February 2013 by Billy
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January is normally a bit boring for whisky releases. Christmas has been and gone, people are counting pennies and the whisky industry is plotting quietly as the end of the tax year heaves itself over…
Continue reading »Tasting Notes: Midleton 1991 Single Cask for TWE
Posted on 28 January 2013 by Tim F
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Ah, how we love our Midleton here at TWE (patient readers with too much time on their hands can check out Tim F’s account of his trip there a year or two ago here and…
Continue reading »Tasting the 2012 Diageo Special Releases at TWE Vinopolis
Posted on 24 January 2013 by Ollie
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Since 2001 Diageo have announced, in October of each year, their Special Release Range. Each series of bottles is picked to highlight the best of their distilleries and are acknowledged to be landmark bottlings, representing…
Continue reading »Burns Night at Vinopolis
Posted on 11 January 2013 by Billy
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If you’ve not organised a Burns Night party for yourself and are looking for someone else to take care of the details then our friends at Vinopolis, hosts of our London shop, may have something…
Continue reading »Happy Christmas!
Posted on 24 December 2012 by Billy
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We know we’re a day early, but the office is now closing down for Christmas so we thought we’d put up a little something on the blog before we power down our PCs and turn…
Continue reading »TWE Blog's Festive Whiskies
Posted on 22 December 2012 by Tim F
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It’s the time of year when one’s thoughts turn to what to treat oneself to over the festive period. Let’s make no bones about it – although it’s an absurdly over-privileged, first world thing to say and…
Continue reading »Bruichladdich Tasting with Craig Johnstone
Posted on 21 December 2012 by Billy
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Ever since Bruichladdich’s acquisition by Rémy Martin earlier this year they’ve been very much at the forefront of the whisky news. Throw into the mix the culmination of some of their pre-buyout plans and you’ve…
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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!
Posted on: 7 October 2024
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...
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