The Whisky Exchange has only come about due to my passion for Whisky and in particular for Single Malts.

I originally started collecting Miniatures since the age of 12. When finding a very large collection of minis for sale in Bath, which i eventually bought i was faced with the dilema of where do i keep 8000 miniatures.
Advise from a number of friends in the Mini Bottle Club led me to specialise in Single Malt Whisky minis. I sold everything else and ended up with 300 or so minis.
20 years later and I have 4500 Single Malts in miniature and now the task is to find a place to display them all

About 12 years ago, I started getting interested in the larger standard size bottles, and started
with collecting only 1 bottle from each distillery. I only wanted to collect 75cl sized bottles, as the new bottlings (70cl) were standard releases and not so interesting, but then........ Black Bowmore was released and i had to have one of these.!!!!!, and then a different new limited edition was released, and I had to have one of those too.!!!!!!!!! (What crazy people collectors are ??).
2000 bottles later, I think nothing more to pick up now and then another one tempts me.


hen................ We have been collecting Single Malt Whisky for the last 12 years and have about 1000 different bottles, dating from the 1880's.

The profile of the collection is a mix between drinking whiskies and collecting whiskies:

Whisky is of course for drinking; therefore we have aside a large number of bottles, which we feel are very good drinking whiskies, to be drunk in the future. With Single cask bottlings, gems are to be found which may never be found again, therefore if affordable it maybe worth putting away a few bottles for the future.

On the collecting side, as with every other collector we would like to get an example from every distillery that has existed in Scotland. Many bottlings from distilleries, which were easy to find a few years ago, are now getting difficult and of course pricey!!!!! (eg: Kinclaith ). This will continue to happen as stocks from closed distilleries are used up.

Original distillery bottlings are always better, but not possible in many cases such as Banff, Convalmore, Kinclaith, etc.

Limited Edition bottlings are usually interesting, with the best example being Black Bowmore.

Our main areas of great interest are Ardbeg, Bowmore, Macallan, Port Ellen, Springbank and of course Lost Distilleries.

Some bottles from our collection may be seen in our Rare / Old Malts section.

Any help with any of the above areas of interest would be gratefully appreciated.
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