THE WHISKY EXCHANGE WHISKY SHOW 2011
The Luxury Tasting Experience

‘The UK’s leading Whisky Experience where you can taste, learn about & enjoy the world’s finest whiskies’
Vinopolis, 1 Bank End, SE1, LONDON
7th and 8th October 2011

Exciting New Whiskies at the TWE Whisky Show
As at previous Shows, we will be launching a number of rare, limited edition bottlings at The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show, including some new releases from Speciality Drinks and The Whisky Exchange.
To kick things off with a bang, Elements of Islay will be unveiling the inaugural bottling of Kh1, the first independent bottling of single malt from Islay’s newest distillery. Available only at The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show, this lively, fresh young peaty dram is sure to be a massive hit with Show visitors and is one of the most limited Elements of Islay bottlings ever released, being bottled at full strength from a single cask. Kh1 will be accompanied at the Show by at least four other exciting new bottlings in the Elements of Islay range, including Bn1, Lp3 and possibly even Pe5.

The Whisky Exchange, meanwhile, will be showcasing their latest find – an incredibly unusual 46 year-old Single Blend from Lochside distillery. This whisky is comprised of both malt and grain whisky distilled in 1964 at the now-defunct Lochside distillery – and as if that wasn’t unusual enough, both types of spirit were vatted together immediately after distillation and spentthe next 46 years marrying together in the cask before bottling. This fabulously fruity dram is a rare and exotic treasure.

TWE will also be launching the second expression in our Masterpieces series at this year’s Show: a specially selected Bowmore from 1993. Bottled from a single ex-bourbon cask, this Bowmore is considerably peatier than normal for the distillery and promises to be a worthy successor to last year’s Masterpiece, the critically-lauded Longmorn 1978.

Fans of Japanese single malt, meanwhile, will not want to miss the latest Speciality Drinks bottling of Karuizawa. Their previous single cask bottlings from 1967 and 1982 have been a roaring success with customers and critics alike, and this latest release from the 1981 vintage is another epic dram, bottled at full strength from a single sherry cask.

With a TWE-exclusive official bottling of Glen Garioch from the famous 1971 vintage, Single Malts of Scotland releases from Clynelish, Ardmore and Aberlour, and Whisky Trail bottlings from Caol Ila and Macallan also scheduled for release at the event, this year’s TWE Whisky Show is an opportunity for whisky fans to taste a remarkable range of new and exclusive whiskies – and all the above bottlings will be available for visitors to buy and take home with them from The Whisky Exchange Shop at Vinopolis.

Our exhibitors will also be making a splash with several new bottlings making their first public appearances at the Show. Springbank will be unveiling their new Longrow Burgundy Wood bottling, while Buffalo Trace will introduce the 2011 releases of George T. Stagg, William Larue Weller and Thomas H. Handy from their legendary multi-award winning Antique Collection.

Meanwhile, Japanese whisky importers Number One Drinks Company, fresh from their successful acquisition of the remaining Karuizawa stock, will be launching Chichibu ‘The First’ and Ichiro’s Malt and Grain at the Show, and of course Highland Park’s latest Orcadian Vintage bottlings from the 1971 and 1976 vintages will be officially unveiled to the public for the first time during their exclusive Masterclass on Saturday afternoon.
With such an array of incredible new whiskies for aficionados to taste, The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show has proved itself as the UK’s most important whisky event and is shaping up to be a truly unmissable occasion.

For further information on The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show, please contact the Show Office on 0208 838 9448 or email office@whisky-show.com

Notes

About TWE Whisky Show

The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show unequivocally promotes and encourages responsible drinking by all visitors to the Show. Perhaps uniquely for a whisky tasting event, the organisers have gone to great lengths to stress quality over quantity and consumption in moderation. TWE Whisky Show is all about appreciation of the world’s finest spirit.

TWE Whisky Show is organized by The Whisky Exchange (www.thewhiskyexchange.com), the world’s leading specialist whisky retailer.

More details and a full list of sponsors and exhibitors at the Show will shortly be available at www.whisky-show.com.