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William
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:06 pm    Post subject: The Whisky Exchange - New Site Reply with quote

The Whisky Exchange has launched a new version of their website.

The A to Z of malts and the Whisky News page showing the latest releases seems to have disappeared. from the site, i dont know about anyone else but these where the main pages i would use when i visited the site.

The new site does have a more professional look about it and loads much quicker, which can only improve sales for the site.

You can check out there new site here: The Whisky Exchange

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe i am just not used to the new site but i also liked the A to Z of Single Malts page, i used this page all the time.The A to Z page was the page i had book marked in my favourites.

Also i dont think much of the search page. Too many options in the drop down box and you have to scroll a long way down to find the Single Malts option.

The look of the site has improved but it would have been easy to leave an A to Z of Single Malts page on the new site.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have just noticed the new site. Looks good but i did like the old sites A to Z page where you could view all the distilleries.

It is a much better looking site and will be even better when they start getting some reviews and tasting notes added.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Davy wrote:
It is a much better looking site and will be even better when they start getting some reviews and tasting notes added.

Davy


I agree Davy, it is about time The Whisky Exchange had some info on there site about the whiskies it is selling. I just added a review to see how the system works, I got a message saying reviews are monitored and it would take a couple of days to appear. So it will be interesting to see how long it takes a review to appear on the site. It will be interesting to see whether they add both good and bad reviews which have been submitted.

When submitting a review they could have asked the reviewer to rate the whisky out of 100.

I also agree about what has been said about the A to Z of malts page not being on the new site, very annoying i always used that page.

I also prefered the old search page where you could search by either vintage, age, region, distillery or bottler.

A sort button for the search results would have been nice. i.e. Sort By Price or Sort Alphabetically. Also a sort button on the "Single Malts" page when you select "Producer" in the drop down box would also have been good.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the site looks much better.

It is a pity the News page has gone i always visited this page. Perhaps they are now going to send out a email newsletter, i registered for their newsletter ages ago but never ever received one. The old format A to Z page will also be missed by me.

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Mark
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The site does look better and the fact they are going to add reviews and tasting notes is excellent.

The search is very poor, i would say the search on the old version of the site was better. For instance i liked browsing through the offerings from the independent bottlers to see if anything caught my interest but it seems you cannot do this now. I used to be able to select for example Gordon & MacPhail on the search page then view all the bottlings The Whisky Exchange had to offer from G & M. The independent bottlers are not even mentioned in the drop down box on the search page. When you type in a independent bottlers name such as Duncan Taylor or Gordon & MacPhail you get no results. There search is very poorly designed on their new site and if i was The Whisky Exchange i would be asking questions of whoever designed it.

It would have been nice if you where able to sort the search results by Price or Alphabetically as John mentioned above.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi All,

I think the site does look much better and as already said the addition of tasting notes and reviews of the whisky will be a huge improvement.

In the past when i have shopped at The Whisky Exchange i would have had my whisky bible to hand to check out tasing notes.

Cheers

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They seem to be taking a long time to add tasting notes and reviews of the whiskies to the new site. Such a pity because it is the one thing The Whisky Exchange site has been missing.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes tasting notes would be a very welcome addition to the site.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I noticed that they have tasting notes for quite a few of the whiskies now which is great but it would be good to see some tasting notes for the independent bottlings from the likes of Gordon & MacPhail and Douglas Laing.

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