It’s been a busy few years for Whyte & Mackay’s Gregg Glass. He arrived at the company in 2016 from Compass Box, where he’d spent more than a decade creating boutique blended whiskies. Hailed as…
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Whisky Works – Glaswegian and King of Trees
Posted on 9 April 2019 by Billy
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The Whisky Exchange Vinopolis – My Memories
Posted on 31 December 2015 by Alex
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Ten years after opening in London Bridge, our Vinopolis store closed for the last time on Christmas Eve. We will be announcing its replacement very soon in the same part of town, and in the…
Continue reading »Dalmore blending masterclass with Richard Paterson
Posted on 11 December 2015 by Stuart
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‘Hello. How are you? Quite well. Thank you very much.’ If you’ve seen Whyte & Mackay’s Richard Paterson host a tasting before, you’ll be familiar with his repertoire of catchphrases, his penchant for throwing whisky…
Continue reading »The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show 2015 – Three Legends of Whisky
Posted on 16 October 2015 by Stuart
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‘This is a moment in history. This will never be repeated.’ A dramatic introduction from our host Dave Broom, but fully warranted. The final Masterclass of the 2015 Whisky Exchange Whisky Show featured more than…
Continue reading »Shackleton's Whisky – Mackinlay's Reborn
Posted on 4 April 2011 by Tim F
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Such was the (possibly apocryphal) advertisement with which Ernest Shackleton was said to have recruited team members for his unsuccessful Antarctic trip, which began in 1907 and ended in 1909 as encroaching sea ice…
Continue reading »Press Release 'Trilogy': Richard Paterson Going Cheap
Posted on 17 September 2009 by Tim F
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Whisky press releases. There are several super-efficient whisky blogs and sites on t’interweb that post them up long before I’ve even read them. However, it has to be said that the vast majority of these…
Continue reading »Whisky Blog PR Frenzy Pt. 2
Posted on 30 July 2009 by Tim F
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After the last blog’s doom and gloom in the whisky world I thought I’d try and get a bit more upbeat, so this post is going to be more about fun events, websites, good news and…
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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
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
Hi. So which do most drinkers prefer, honey based. Or Molasses based. I'm a big fan of Maison Ferrand Plantation Rum. I don't like most Spiced rums. Thank you John
Posted on: 16 October 2023