Last week a party from The Whisky Exchange was invited up to The Glenlivet to view the £10 million new facility that has been added as the main thrust of Pernod Ricard’s bid to propel…
Continue reading »The Glenlivet Expansion: Interview with Alan Winchester
Posted on 10 June 2010 by Tim F
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The Whisky Lounge hits London this Saturday!
Posted on 12 May 2010 by Tim F
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Just a quick plug for this Saturday’s Whisky Lounge event in London, which is taking place at the Hilton in Tower Hill, just round the corner from London Bridge station. Former Glenmorangie ambassador Eddie Ludlow has…
Continue reading »One for the Road: Port Ellen Signatory Tasting Notes
Posted on 7 May 2010 by Tim F
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It’s getting late on Friday, and suddenly three more samples are sitting on my desk. Nothing new there, but these are from Signatory – I think this is the first time I’ve seen a sample…
Continue reading »Bourbon Competition Closed
Posted on 5 May 2010 by Tim F
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Yes, folks – the bourbon competition is now closed, so please don’t send in any more entries! It’s fair to say that SBL have been overwhelmed by the response to the competition. With over 2000 entries, whittling the…
Continue reading »TWE 10th Anniversary Clynelish
Posted on 8 April 2010 by Tim F
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First up, an update on the Name That Bourbon competition: we’ve had well over a thousand suggestions so far, but still no winner – I did tell you that SDL are pretty picky! Thank you all for your…
Continue reading »St. Patrick's Day Cooley Irish Whiskey Tasting
Posted on 30 March 2010 by Tim F
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We were privileged to have Cooley distillery’s Noel Sweeney conduct a St. Patrick’s Day tasting for us at The Whisky Exchange in Vinopolis, showing off a range of their fine products. We started off with…
Continue reading »Bourbon Competition: Keep 'Em Coming!
Posted on 19 March 2010 by Tim F
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Well, I have to say a big thank you for all your entries into our Bourbon Competition! We’ve been inundated with suggestions over the last week. I stopped counting after the first couple of hundred, but…
Continue reading »Bourbon Competition: Win £500 credit at TWE!
Posted on 11 March 2010 by Tim F
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Yes, it’s competition time again – and this time we’re upping the stakes with a truly fantastic prize: £500 credit at The Whisky Exchange!! Our sister company Speciality Drinks Ltd are going to launch a new premium…
Continue reading »Ardbeg Rollercoaster & TWE 10th Anniversary
Posted on 5 March 2010 by Tim F
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Time for some more tasting notes now, but first a quick check on the predictions… Well, the Ardbeg debate has definitely kicked off on the forums, with the news that the official website have raised…
Continue reading »Secrets from Sukhinder's Stash: Pride of Strathspey 1938
Posted on 24 February 2010 by Tim F
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People assume that those of us privileged to work in the drinks trade spend our working hours constantly swigging free cocktails at trendy nitespots, before going home with supermodels, and only emerging from our dens…
Continue reading »TWE Blog Whisky Predictions for 2010 – Pt. 2
Posted on 19 February 2010 by Tim F
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Okay, so it’s been a while getting these down – apologies if anyone was waiting (joke). Right, firstly I need to apologise to Rob and Dave from Whisky Mag for something I said in the…
Continue reading »TWE Blog Whisky Predictions for 2010 Pt.1
Posted on 7 January 2010 by Tim F
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Okay, so the London transport network is f@cked, there’s more snow due this afternoon and I live too far away from work to risk trying to get in and find myself stuck in Park Royal…
Continue reading »Octomore 2.2 – Pictures and (Official) Tasting Notes
Posted on 9 December 2009 by Tim F
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First things first. Open a new window and listen to this while you’re reading the blog. It’ll put you in a good mood, and this might be the last you see of me before Christmas,…
Continue reading »Another Whisky Show Ticket Prize Draw!!
Posted on 29 October 2009 by Tim F
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Well, after the success of the last prize draw for The Whisky Show, I felt kind of bad for all the unlucky applicants – so I asked for more tickets and they said Yes! This time…
Continue reading »Whisky Show Prize Draw Winners!
Posted on 21 October 2009 by Tim F
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Thank you all for entering the prize draw for The Whisky Show tickets! I was shocked with the number of entries received. More importantly, I only had two numpties who couldn’t follow the instructions, so…
Continue reading »The Whisky Show Tickets Prize Draw !
Posted on 16 October 2009 by Tim F
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Yes indeed, I’ve got TEN PAIRS of tickets for The Whisky Show to give away!! This is what you get – the tickets are for FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER and the Show is on from 4pm-10pm: To…
Continue reading »Diageo Special Releases 2009 – The Verdict
Posted on 14 October 2009 by Tim F
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Okay, so last night I was lucky enough to attend the press tasting of this year’s special Release from Diageo, the details of all of which are in my last post. It was a fairly…
Continue reading »Diageo Special Releases 2009 Announced
Posted on 12 October 2009 by Tim F
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Just received the following stuff on the Diageo Special Releases for this year, so thought I’d better share. I’m going to a tasting of these tomorrow night, so will post my own impressions later in the…
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