Regular readers of the blog (Hello, Mum!) will be well aware that we’re unashamed fans of the fantastic Single Pot Still range of whiskies from Pernod Ricard’s Midleton distillery, home of Jameson. Anyone with too much time…
Continue reading »New Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey – Yellow Spot
Posted on 5 October 2012 by Tim F
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Diageo Special Releases 2012
Posted on 2 October 2012 by Tim F
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“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” – Thoreau It’s that time of year again – with the UK’s…
Continue reading »The Angel's Share Film Review
Posted on 28 September 2012 by Tim F
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Back in May, I was lucky to be invited along to a private screening of Ken Loach’s new whisky-related film The Angel’s Share, which has just been released on DVD following its triumphant scooping of the…
Continue reading »Jack Daniel's White Rabbit Saloon
Posted on 21 September 2012 by Billy
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The folks at Brown-Forman have a good problem – when you’re the people behind the world’s biggest American whiskey, what new products do you make? They could happily continue selling nothing but regular Old No.7…
Continue reading »Whisky Show 2012 Update – Dream Drams and tickets selling out…
Posted on 20 September 2012 by Billy
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It’s only a couple of weeks until the 2012 edition of The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show and panic mode is fully engaged the well-oiled TWE machine is in full swing. Here’s a quick update as…
Continue reading »Product Alerts on The Whisky Exchange website
Posted on 12 September 2012 by Billy
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We don’t talk all that much about our main website here on TWEBlog, but behind the scenes our tech team are constantly tweaking and poking around to add new features. One of the most commonly…
Continue reading »TWE Karuizawa Whisky Trip Pt.4: Chichibu Sake Brewery
Posted on 10 September 2012 by Tim F
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[Welcome to Part 4 of Tim F’s epic report on TWE’s Karuizawa whisky trip to Japan, in which we visit a sake brewery. Readers who don’t have much to do today can catch up with…
Continue reading »New Shininess from Compass Box
Posted on 7 September 2012 by Billy
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We rather like the folks at Compass Box. They’ve got a great range of whiskies, produce interesting things and even when they make new drams that are exclusive to other people (have a look around…
Continue reading »Ardbeg Galileo
Posted on 6 September 2012 by Billy
For those just interested in the titular whisky who don’t want to read my random wifflings here’s a tl;dr version of this blog post: despite the rumours Ardbeg Galileo is not sold out everywhere and…
Continue reading »Award Season Analysis – Fool's Gold?
Posted on 17 August 2012 by Tim F
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A big congratulations to all the British medal-winners… at the 2012 International Wine & Spirits Competition, the Spirits categories of which were announced a week or two ago. A total of 1,346 medals were awarded this year…
Continue reading »New Single Malts of Scotland
Posted on 13 August 2012 by Tim F
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Just a quickie to announce the arrival of some new Single Malts of Scotland releases from our sister company Speciality Drinks Ltd (SDL). They’ve been quite quiet on the bottling front this year, but with…
Continue reading »TWE Whisky Show – Update
Posted on 10 August 2012 by Billy
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A lot has been going on in Whisky Exchange Whisky Show-land over the last few months since we last mentioned it on here, so I thought I’d drop in a quick update. Firstly, there’s loads…
Continue reading »Some Experiments from Buffalo Trace
Posted on 7 August 2012 by Nic
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Hi all, Nic here. I’ve been on the (blogging) shelf for a while, but we’ve had some new Bourbons trickling in at the The Whisky Exchange and I thought I would share a few of…
Continue reading »Black Tot Day
Posted on 31 July 2012 by Billy
July 31st is a bit of a strange day in the booze calendar. While it’s often seen as a sad day in principle, it’s increasingly being celebrated. For those not in the know: July 31st…
Continue reading »Some New Johnnie Walkers…
Posted on 23 July 2012 by Billy
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We’ve been meaning to say something up here on the blog for a while about the new additions to the Johnnie Walker range, so finally here are some notes. Earlier this year it was announced…
Continue reading »A Taste of Kilchoman with Anthony Wills
Posted on 20 July 2012 by Billy
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We’re having a little break from tastings down at TWE Vinopolis, although we’re still catching up with the write-ups here at HQ. I’d like to say that it’s so that we can have a rest…
Continue reading »Have a look around Shackleton's Hut
Posted on 18 July 2012 by Billy
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The fine folks at Google like to play around with shiny things and one of their many obsessions over the last year has been Antarctica. They added streetview to selected areas of the big icy…
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