Following on from my last post on the subject, our temporary shop (only around the corner from our traditional location in Vinopolis) is now fully armed and operational. We’ll be there while Vinopolis is rebuilt/refurbished…
Continue reading »Ted Breaux, Jade Liqueurs and the Green Fairy
Posted on 13 July 2012 by Billy
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I like absinthe. I’ve outed myself as an absinthe fan in public on a number of occasions, and over the years, slowly but surely, it seems that people are coming around to the idea that…
Continue reading »TWE in Japan – Karuizawa Trip Pt.3
Posted on 11 July 2012 by Tim F
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[Tim and Sukhinder’s sojourn in Japan continues at Chichibu with an epic tasting of dozens of full-strength single cask Karuizawas… you can read about their earlier adventures on the trip here and here.] After our…
Continue reading »Balvenie, a crafty bunch
Posted on 9 July 2012 by Billy
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The folks at Balvenie have been a bit busy recently. In fact, that seems to be the way I start off most posts about them, so I suspect the ‘recently’ is more of a ‘for…
Continue reading »Tasting AE Dor and Grosperrin Cognac with Ed Bates
Posted on 29 June 2012 by Billy
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This month’s first tasting down at our Shop was another stepping out of the confines of grain spirits, this time into the world of boiled wine, specifically cognac. We were joined by Mousquetaire d’Armagnac and…
Continue reading »North British 50 year Old – Douglas Laing's Directors' Cut
Posted on 26 June 2012 by Billy
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North British distillery has been in the news recently and unfortunately it’s not been due to whisky. Happily it was announced last week that the distillery’s cooling towers were not the source of a Legionnaire’s…
Continue reading »Website Maintenance – Sunday June 24th
Posted on 22 June 2012 by Billy
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Just a quick note that The Whisky Exchange website will be down from midnight to 8am on Sunday June 24th for maintenance. We’ll stop accepting orders shortly before midnight, to give people a chance…
Continue reading »Our Shop is Moving! (temporarily)
Posted on 21 June 2012 by Billy
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The summer is upon us and with it there is an unnamed sporting event happening in our capital. That, along with a chunk of serious building work, means that Vinopolis, the home of our shop…
Continue reading »Glen Garioch Tasting at TWE Vinopolis
Posted on 18 June 2012 by Tim F
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We had a great tasting of the full delights of Glen Garioch at TWE Vinopolis the other week. Iain McCallum, Morrison Bowmore’s Malt Master, regaled us with tales of traumatic hangover breakfasts, an unfortunate incident with…
Continue reading »Copper Fox Rye
Posted on 15 June 2012 by Billy
We’ve had a host of American whiskeys arrive at TWE Towers recently, with limited edition Jack Daniel’s, big bottles of Bulleit Rye, Wild Turkey 81 and a selection of old bottles all turning up in the…
Continue reading »Cinco de Mayo at TWE Vinopolis
Posted on 11 June 2012 by Billy
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Most of my blog posts recently seem to have started off with a “there are other spirits in the world that aren’t whisky” type of sentiment, which is getting a bit long in the tooth….
Continue reading »World Gin Day 2012
Posted on 7 June 2012 by Billy
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Some say it tastes of petrol; others like it with tonic; a few of us even like drinking it on its own. I am of course speaking of gin, the finest juniper-led spirit of our…
Continue reading »The Whisky Exchange – Independent Retailer of the Year 2012
Posted on 1 June 2012 by Tim F
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We’re delighted to announce that The Whisky Exchange has scooped another gong! At the UK’s biggest drinks trade event, the London International Wine Fair held in Excel last week, TWE was named as Independent Retailer of the Year…
Continue reading »New at TWE – Wemyss Malts
Posted on 25 May 2012 by Billy
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We’re always looking for new and interesting whiskies to put on our shelves here at TWE but somehow we’ve managed to have a hole in our independents lineup around the W-mark. But no longer, as…
Continue reading »Ardbeg Day at TWE Vinopolis
Posted on 22 May 2012 by Billy
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Fèis Ìle, the Islay Festival of Malt and Music, will be upon us shortly and despite our shop being almost as far from Islay as you can get while still being in the UK (as…
Continue reading »TWE Karuizawa Whisky Trip Pt.2: Karuizawa Casks and Chichibu distillery
Posted on 18 May 2012 by Tim F
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This is the second instalment of Tim F’s report on TWE blog’s recent Karuizawa & Chichibu whisky trip to Japan. You can read part 1 here. The following morning, refreshed after a sound night’s sleep…
Continue reading »The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show 2012 – Tickets Now On Sale
Posted on 11 May 2012 by Tim F
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We’re delighted to announce that The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show (the UK’s greatest whisky tasting event in our thoroughly biased opinion) will be returning to Vinopolis on 6th-7th October 2012 – and tickets are on…
Continue reading »English Whisky at TWE Vinopolis
Posted on 3 May 2012 by Billy
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While we’re busy running around at HQ finishing up some SEKRIT PROJECTS (of which more will be heard shortly…) the folks down at our Vinopolis shop have been continuing running their series of rather excellent…
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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.
Posted on: 11 January 2024
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