It has become an annual pilgrimage to London to join The Whisky Exchange’s Whisky Show. One I really don’t want to miss! Yes, it is a dizzying array of 1,000+ drams, an opportunity to discover new entrants, revisit distilleries you thought you knew, learn from industry experts, kibbitz with fellow whisky aficionados… for me, above all, it is an opportunity to spend quality time with a dear friend as we explore together a shared interest.

Over the coming months, I invite you to join our journey… hopefully giving you a sense of what we were lucky enough to experience over two days early October 2025.

Day 1

• Getting started with Decadent Drinks Mannochmore, revisit with Deanston, Speyside, Highland Park
• Dream Dram: Lochside 46 year
• Sukhinder’s Elixir The Single Malts of Scotland whiskies
• Glen Grant flight with 12, 15, 18, Rum and the mature 21, 25, 30 year
• Amrut new expressions
• New player: Arbikie
• Gordon & Macphail Connoisseurs Choice
• Whisky Show Exclusives
• Labour of love: The Heart Cut
• A celebration of blends: Compass Box
• Sweden’s Agitator
• Denmark’s Thy
• Romania’s Carpathian whiskies

Day 2

• Breakfast drams – explore new Arran releases
• Tamdhu flight
• Checking out a pre-official launch new entrant: Aberargie
• Ichiro’s Malts and Chichibu
• Revisiting Deanston
• Dream Drams Glen Grant birth year pair – 1961 25 year + 1969 49 year
• Annandale unpeated expressions
• Canada’s Macaloney’s
• Decadent Dram‘s lovely lowland Blandnoch
• Finland’s Teerenpelli
• Norway’s Bivrost
• Sweden’s High Coast
• Show close, with Duncan Taylor’s Octave expressions

We also thoroughly enjoyed three Mainstage sessions:

• Independent bottling with Dawn Davies and Adelphi, Thomkins, Heart Cut
• Nordic‘s discussion about the influence of location with Billy Abbott and Thy, Bivrost, Feddies
• Island‘s impact on the approach to whisky with Dave Bloom and Harris, Scapa, and Spirit of Hven

I won’t be rushed to push out impressions of 100+ drams. Instead, I will savour anew the glimpses into different whisky styles, the conversations and insights, sharing bit by bit. So sit back, relax, and hopefully enjoy the show!

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