Autumn is a special time of year in the world of American whiskey. With the hot summer done, the distilleries knuckle down and push their various special releases for the year out of the door….
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Posted on 2 September 2011 by Billy
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As we get closer to our marvellous TWE Whisky Show (which is scarily only five weeks away) there will be a lot more information appearing about the things that we’re going to be doing, as…
Continue reading »Port Askaig Harbour 19 Year Old
Posted on 26 August 2011 by Tim F
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It’s with great regret that we must announce that the Port Askaig 17 year-old – Speciality Drinks’ superb mystery single Islay malt which became the whisky version of a soundtrack [a tastetrack? – Ed.] to TWEBlog &…
Continue reading »A trip to Knockdhu
Posted on 24 August 2011 by Billy
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[This is Part 4 of Billy’s trip around the Inver House distilleries. If you haven’t already, you should check out his scribblings from Balblair, Pulteney and Speyburn] After leaving Speyburn we hacked back over to…
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Posted on 15 August 2011 by Billy
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[This is the third instalment of Billy’s trip around the Inver House distilleries. If you haven’t already, check out his visits to Balblair and Pulteney] The next stop on our tour of the Inver House distilleries…
Continue reading »Music at the TWE Whisky Show – Tim Hain
Posted on 12 August 2011 by Billy
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We’re happy to announce that we not only have fantastic drinks and food lined up for the TWE Whisky Show but we now also have musical accompaniment thanks to the excellent Tim Hain. You can…
Continue reading »Penderyn
Posted on 10 August 2011 by Toby
Please welcome mouthy young upstart Toby Quirk to the blog. Toby is a Spiritual Advisor to our Vinopolis shop and most recent member of staff to discover that going on a trip to a distillery comes with…
Continue reading »Balvenie Tasting at TWE Vinopolis with Drs Forrester & Whisky
Posted on 5 August 2011 by Chris
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[This week we are joined by the TWE Vinopolis shop assistant manager and tastings organiser Chris Bolton, to talk us through our recent event at the hands of Balvenie’s whisky doctors – Forrester and Whisky] Throughout…
Continue reading »A trip to Pulteney
Posted on 1 August 2011 by Billy
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Leg 2 of my Inver House distilleries tour started off with a bit of a drive. Our departure point was Edderton, home of Balblair, and our destination was Wick, site of the Pulteney distillery. Scotland…
Continue reading »TWE Whisky Show Masterclass: Exotic Fruit with Dave Broom
Posted on 29 July 2011 by Billy
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Another week and another masterclass has been announced for The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show in October. It’s a slightly different look at a whisky tasting to normal, instead matching up flavours between the different bottlings,…
Continue reading »A trip to Balblair
Posted on 25 July 2011 by Billy
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The lovely folk of Inver House Distillers (the Scottish production wing of International Beverages) recently invited me along to a trip around four of their distilleries with a bunch of international bloggers. Not being one…
Continue reading »The Whisky Exchange Blog at Spirit of Speyside: Pt 4
Posted on 20 July 2011 by Tim F
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Welcome to the concluding part of Tim F’s monumental write-up of this year’s Spirit of Speyside festival. Foolhardy stalwarts can find the earlier episodes here, here and here. Neil, Joel and I had to bid farewell to…
Continue reading »The Whisky Exchange Blog at Spirit of Speyside: Pt 3
Posted on 12 July 2011 by Tim F
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This is the third part of Tim’s over-written journal from The Spirit of Speyside festival. Brave readers happening on this post for the first time may want to read Part 1 & Part 2 first. Proper breaks should be…
Continue reading »TWE Whisky Show Masterclass: The Gordon & Macphail Timeline
Posted on 8 July 2011 by Billy
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This is just a quick post to point you to a more in depth post, but following on from the announcement of our first masterclass at this year’s Whisky Exchange Whisky Show we are proud…
Continue reading »The Whisky Exchange Blog at Spirit of Speyside: Pt. 2
Posted on 5 July 2011 by Tim F
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Welcome to part two of my epic jaunt around the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival. Click here if you missed Pt. 1 (or if you just fancy reading it again). The following morning, after a…
Continue reading »Single Malts of Scotland Springbank 1999
Posted on 1 July 2011 by Billy
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A quick post today about a new bottling that we’ve just got in from our sister company, Speciality Drinks Ltd, as part of the Single Malts of Scotland range – an 11 year old Springbank….
Continue reading »The Whisky Exchange Blog at Spirit of Speyside: Pt.1
Posted on 27 June 2011 by Tim F
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Now and again, working in the whisky industry and trotting out the occasional overly verbose blog throws up some spectacular fringe benefits that fully justify the grinding rectal ache of the three hour daily commute…
Continue reading »Suntory Japanese Whisky Charity Tasting Event
Posted on 22 June 2011 by Duncan
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TWE Blog is proud to welcome the legendary Duncan Ross from TWE Vinopolis as a guest writer on the blog, with his first post being the following report on our recent charity Japanese whisky tasting: The events that occurred in…
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