The folks at The Balvenie aren’t really known for changing their core range around all that much. We’ve had DoubleWood 12yo for a while now, with David Stewart’s Signature 12yo coming in as the new…
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Tasting Notes: Balvenie 12 Year Old Single Barrel First Fill
Posted on 11 April 2013 by Billy
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Balvenie DoubleWood 17 Year Old
Posted on 11 December 2012 by Tim F
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Balvenie‘s 12 year old DoubleWood is one of Speyside’s most-loved drams amongst the whisky fraternity, with many whisky nuts (yours truly included) citing it as a key ‘gateway’ malt. I certainly have vivid memories of it…
Continue reading »TWE Whisky Show Whisky Dinner
Posted on 14 September 2012 by Tim F
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It was an excited crowd that milled in the beautiful, airy conservatory at London’s Bombay Brasserie on Tuesday night. The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show Pre-Show Dinner (to give it its full, quite-a-lot-too-long title) began with…
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 »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 »TWE Blog Awards!
Posted on 16 February 2012 by Tim F
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It’s Oscar time again, and even in the whisky world the awards season is in full swing. Basking in the warm glow of our award for Best Online / Direct Mail Retailer of the Year at the recent…
Continue reading »Balvenie's Craftsman's Reserve #1 – The Cooper
Posted on 25 January 2012 by Billy
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We look forward to new releases at TWE Towers just like everyone else and when Balvenie announced an online unveiling of their newest dram, along with tasting packs for us to follow on at home,…
Continue reading »Balvenie's Batch 2s – Tun 1401 and 40 year old
Posted on 11 November 2011 by Billy
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The folks at Balvenie like keeping busy. After a summer of random events they’ve hunkered down as we approach the end of the year and have done that which we know them for most –…
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 »The Balvenie Whisky Den
Posted on 26 May 2011 by Billy
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The folks over at William Grant & Sons like a bit of interesting marketing. Their portfolio stretches outside of the world of whisky, with both Hendrick’s and Sailor Jerry Rum on the books, and over…
Continue reading »40 Year-Old Whiskies: A Guide
Posted on 15 April 2011 by Tim F
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Ok, we’re doing something a bit different today on The Whisky Exchange Blog – a collaborative post! Yes, this particular blog on forty year-old whisky has been written by myself AND Sukhinder: he’s supplied the…
Continue reading »Balvenie Peated Cask 17yo Tasting Notes
Posted on 3 September 2010 by Tim F
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There’s been a few reviews of this forthcoming Balvenie release already, so I thought I might as well stick my oar in. These Balvenie 17yo’s have been coming out pretty regularly for a while now and have…
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Distilled during the golden age of peated Brora and left to mature in refill casks for 40 years. This is im...
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A charming seven-year-old Indian single malt from Amrut matured in a single ex-bourbon barrel ...
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The Decision is the final addition to the Bladnoch Dragon series quintet, displaying the distill...
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