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Our Timeline
20 Years of Achievement & Innovation
Twenty years has seen lots of things happen at The Whisky Exchange – here are a few of the important events that have made us what we are today.
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1971 The Nest is opened
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1991 Off Licence News Off Licence of the Year 1991
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1994 100 single malts!
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1999 The website is launched
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2000 Our first employee
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2004 Our logo is created
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2004 Founding of Speciality Drinks
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2006 We grow out of our first warehouse and move to a new one
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2006 We open our first shop in Vinopolis London Bridge
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2006 Our new website is launched
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2007 We launch Yamazaki 12
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2007 A technical lead
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Did you know?
2008 First post on The Whisky Exchange blog
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2008 Elements of Islay is launched
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2009 Our 10th birthday!
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2009 Port Askaig is launched
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2009 The first Karuizawa Geisha
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2009 The first Whisky Show, at The Guildhall, London
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2009 Icons of Whisky Online Retailer of the Year 2009
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2010 We launch our engraving service
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2010 Our exclusive Glenfarclas 50 Year Old
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2011 Abbott's Choice
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2011 Raj 'Mr C' Chavda joins the Whisky Exchange
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2013 We outgrew our old warehouse (again!) and moved to Elixir House
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2013 Sukhinder is named Innovator of the Year at the Imbibe Personality of the Year Awards
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2013 We release the Glenfarclas 1953 Queen's Coronation Decanter
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2014 Our first ever Whisky of the Year is announced
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2015 A new Dawn
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2015 Our second shop opens in Covent Garden
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2015 Whisky Show moves to its current home – Old Billingsgate
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2015 Karuizawa bottling and tasting for Nepalese charities
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2016 The Perfect Measure is born
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2016 The 1920s Professional Blenders Glass is created
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2017 The first Whisky Show: Old & Rare
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2017 Elixir Distillers is born
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2017 IWSC Independent Spirits Retailer of the Year 2017
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2017 A pair of Karuizawa Golden Geisha releases start a new era of rare Japanese whisky
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2017 Black Friday Whisky is launched – and sells out in 15 minutes
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2018 Cognac Show is launched – and named Drinks Event of the Year by The Drinks Business
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2018 Sukhinder is recognised for outstanding achievement by the IWSC
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2018 Our Christmas Malt is launched
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2018 The Perfect Measure glass is launched
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2018 Our Great Portland Street shop opens
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2018 Whisky Show 10th Anniversary
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2018 The Future of Whisky bottling series is launched at Whisky Show
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2018 Special Karuizawa created for charity auction to combat plastic pollution
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2018 The first Champagne Show takes place
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2018 The world's first Mount Gay exclusive bottling
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2019 The Prince's Foundation ballot
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2019 We launch our customisable London Dry Gin
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2019 We launch our customisable single-cask whiskies
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Did you know?
2019 In June 2001 we had 982 Scotch single malts available on our website. In June 2019 we had 2954.