The end of May is usually a time for celebration in the whisky world – it’s time for Fèis Ìle, the Islay Festival of Malt and Music. A week-long celebration of Scotland’s most distillery-packed island,…
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Posted on 22 May 2020 by Billy
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The Glenlivet Spectra – can you solve the puzzle?
Posted on 18 May 2020 by Billy
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The Glenlivet is a tricksy whisky. While the distillery is normally quite transparent about how it makes its whisky, once a year they release a bottle where they hide all the details. First Alpha, then…
Continue reading »Virtual Tastings – May 2020
Posted on 1 May 2020 by Billy
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It’s a new month and we’ve got a new line-up of virtual tastings to keep you learning about great drinks from the comfort of your own sofa. Mid May brings us World Whisky Day, and…
Continue reading »The Wonders of Wine
Posted on 22 April 2020 by Ning
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Wine is one of the most popular drinks in the world, yet with near-endless options (we have more than 1,000 bottles of still and sparkling wine on our site alone) it can be hard to…
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Posted on 16 April 2020 by Billy
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It’s time for the third edition of The Whisky Exchange’s award-winning Cognac Show. However, there’s one major difference this year – it’s going to be online. While we’ve had to postpone the in-person Cognac Show,…
Continue reading »Covid-19 Charity Auction and a new Karuizawa
Posted on 14 April 2020 by Billy
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It’s time to get bidding – Whisky.Auction’s Covid-19 Charity auction ends tonight, 14 April 2020! There are loads of great lots donated by people across the drinks world, from brands to fans and everyone in…
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Posted on 7 April 2020 by Billy
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It’s a strange time. The Whisky Exchange team are almost all working from home and all of our upcoming events for the next few months have been cancelled or postponed. However, we, like many others,…
Continue reading »You know it makes sense – new TV tie-in whiskies
Posted on 1 April 2020 by TWE Admin
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While TV-tie in whiskies were once an idea only raised in the context of jokes, the success of Diageo’s Game of Thrones series last year proved beyond doubt that they are anything but. Other brands…
Continue reading »Bring the Bar Home – support your favourite bars
Posted on 30 March 2020 by Billy
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With the UK’s bars closed down, it’s a hard time for both the drinks industry and drinkers – the former is having to make hard decisions about staff and ongoing business, and the latter don’t…
Continue reading »Glen Grant for Burns Night with Jim Murray and Dennis Malcolm
Posted on 17 January 2020 by Tom
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What did you do for Burns Night 2019? Did you spend it in the UK’s tallest building, sipping award-winning drams with arguably the world’s best-known and longest-standing whisky writer, and the master distiller in charge…
Continue reading »The 10 Best Drinks Gifts Available Right Now – December Edition
Posted on 16 December 2019 by Caroline
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Christmas is now frighteningly close, so much so that my Christmas cake has now drunk more whisky than I have*. If you’re still stuck for gift inspiration, or just fancy treating yourself, we’ve rounded up…
Continue reading »Should Eggnog Be Aged?
Posted on 11 December 2019 by Tom
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or; Project Nog – Phase Two: Unravelling The Mysteries of Time Part one of our eggnog adventures appeared previously – What booze works best in eggnog? Always asking the important questions, we are. The most…
Continue reading »Whisky of the Year – the winner…
Posted on 3 December 2019 by Billy
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It’s that time again – the announcement of our Whisky of the Year. And the winner is, drum-roll, please…
Continue reading »What booze works best in eggnog?
Posted on 29 November 2019 by Tom
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or; Project Nog: Into A Dairy Sea There comes a point in everyone’s life – or so it seems to us here at The Whisky Exchange editorial department – when we (they? One?) must look…
Continue reading »The 10 Best Drinks Gifts Available Right Now
Posted on 5 November 2019 by Tom
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Gift packs can be a fantastic, convenient way to get yourself – and the ultimate recipient of your carefully considered and wildly lavish gift – the absolute maximum in terms of bang/buck ratio. They can…
Continue reading »Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2020 – the winners
Posted on 17 October 2019 by Billy
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With its usual lack of fanfare (followed by a lot of internet-based raging), the latest edition of ‘The World’s Leading Whisky Guide’ has landed – Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2020.
Continue reading »Diageo Special Releases 2019
Posted on 15 October 2019 by Billy
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Announced back in July, the Diageo Special Releases 2019 have now been unveiled. The yearly range is a fixture of the whisky calendar, and the past few years have seen a number of changes. Find…
Continue reading »Novelty Bottles – Cask Finishes Edition
Posted on 25 September 2019 by Tom
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Casks, amirite? Some of them are familiar, some of them are less so – all of them have an irrevocable (or irreparable, depending on where you’re sitting) effect on the spirit matured within them. In…
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