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The Whisky Connoisseur’s Corner – London Cocktail Week

Posted on 13 October 2023 by Billy

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London Cocktail Week is now on, with bars across the city welcoming curious drinkers to try great cocktails and much more. Nestled in amongst the more traditional cocktail events, there are a few rather special…

Karuizawa Distillers and Komoro Distillery – a new chapter in Nagano whisky making

Posted on 12 December 2020 by Billy

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Karuizawa is a hefty name in Japanese whisky. A town with an eponymous distillery whose whiskies now change hands for many thousands of pounds a bottle. A distillery which is not only closed but has…

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…

Karuizawa – The Murasaki Geishas

Posted on 12 October 2018 by Billy

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At The Whisky Exchange, we are very fortunate to be able to bottle some of the world’s rarest and most exclusive whiskies. Joining those hallowed ranks today is a pair of new bottlings from maybe…

Karuizawa: bourbon casks are best

Posted on 26 January 2018 by Billy

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Karuizawa is an almost unobtainable whisky. I’m incredibly lucky in getting to try it from time to time, but I hold a strange opinion that gets me strange looks from whisky fans: I think bourbon-cask-matured…

The Art of Whisky – what makes a beautiful bottle?

Posted on 14 November 2017 by Billy

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Whether you’re a whisky collector or a drinker, a whisky’s looks are important. Beyond its colour and how it looks in the glass, there’s the packaging. While we are focused on finding whiskies that taste…

Karuizawa: what makes it the world’s rarest whisky?

Posted on 9 June 2017 by Billy

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Over the past few years, Japanese whisky has exploded in popularity. From the most commonplace bottlings to limited-edition single casks, Japanese whisky has become increasingly hard to find as whisky fans have discovered how good…

The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show 2015 – Karuizawa Nepal Charity Tasting

Posted on 23 October 2015 by Stuart

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It was billed as the most expensive whisky tasting ever staged, and there was an appropriately reverent, almost nervous air as people took their seats for this one-off tasting of five extremely rare Karuizawa whiskies…

Karuizawa Charity Masterclass – The Whisky Show does it again…

Posted on 11 August 2015 by Billy

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The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show is less than eight weeks away, which means that from here on the announcements will be coming thick and fast – there’s lots going on this year. For those of…

New Karuizawa 1981 and Hanyu 2000

Posted on 16 January 2015 by Billy

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Ever since we previewed it at The Whisky Show in October, we’ve been receiving questions about the Karuizawa that was on our Japanese whisky stand. The wait is now over and we can announce both…

Karuizawa 1984 Sherry Cask #3663

Posted on 31 January 2014 by Billy

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The news: we have a new Karuizawa going up on the website – Karuizawa 1984 Sherry Cask #3663 bottled 2013 at 56.8%. However, we’ve decided that we’re going to do things a little differently with…

2013 – The TWEBlog review of the year

Posted on 9 January 2014 by Billy

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There seems to be a long running tradition across the internets of writing round-up posts at the beginning of the year. I’ve not yet done so and am starting to feel left out, so here’s…

TWE Karuizawa Whisky Trip Pt.9: More Whisky Bars

Posted on 12 June 2013 by Tim F

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[Welcome to the concluding episode of Tim F’s series of whisky adventures in Japan, in which more whisky bars are visited. Time-rich insomniacs can find the previous instalments here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.] It was with some trepidation…

TWE Karuizawa Whisky Trip Pt.7: Endgame for Karuizawa

Posted on 22 April 2013 by Tim F

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[Welcome to the seventh instalment of TWE’s big Karuizawa trip to Japan. You can read the earlier episodes here, here, here, here, here and here.] After our excellent evening out at Helmsdale we awoke the…

TWE in Japan: Karuizawa Trip Pt.6

Posted on 8 April 2013 by Tim F

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[Welcome to the sixth instalment of our trip to Japan. Readers with too much time on their hands can catch up on the full story so far here, here, here, here and here.] After the…

TWE in Japan – Karuizawa Trip Pt.5

Posted on 6 March 2013 by Tim F

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[Welcome to the fifth part of TWE’s trip to Japan last year. You can read the earlier instalments in this saga of inter-continental dramming here, here, here and here.] The town of Karuizawa is an…

Karuizawa – The Spirit of Asama

Posted on 16 November 2012 by Billy

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One of the things that I didn’t realise before I started working at TWE was quite how slow boats are. We’ve been waiting for quite a while for our latest shipment of whisky to arrive…

TWE Karuizawa Whisky Trip Pt.4: Chichibu Sake Brewery

Posted on 10 September 2012 by Tim F

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[Welcome to Part 4 of Tim F’s epic report on TWE’s Karuizawa whisky trip to Japan, in which we visit a sake brewery. Readers who don’t have much to do today can catch up with…

D. Sinkler on The 5 Best Whisky and Film Moments:
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
Billy on Rum vs Rhum – molasses, agricole and sugarcane honey:
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
Mafkus Glass on Karuizawa: what makes it the world’s rarest whisky?:
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