Tobermory The distillery was founded by John Sinclair in 1798 after he had applied to lease the 57 acre site named Ledaig in 1797 with the intention to build a distillery along with housing for the workers.. Initially he was turned down for the licence to distill but was granted a brewing licence, however John…
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Glentauchers 44 Year Old – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Glentauchers The Glentauchers distillery is located in the Speyside region of Scotland and was founded in 1897. Designed by John Alcock, with the building work overseen by Charles Doig & Son, the distillery started to produce spirit when James Buchanan Co. Ltd. and three members of Glentauchers Distillery Co. joined hands with Glentachers the year…
Tennessee Rye Whisky 4 Year Old, That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Here we go again.. Some mysterious distillery over the pond from Kentucky.. That Boutique-y Whisky Company, O wait, this is from That Boutique-y Rye Company, my bad.. Well, its from Boutique-y so ill just stick at that for now. Anyhow they have managed to get some Rye Whisky and yes its whisky not whiskey !…
Japanese Blended Whisky #1 21 Year Old, That Boutique-y Whisky Company
It is safe to say Japanese whisky is sought after.. Some releases are commanding rather ridiculous price tags, and when you consider what some of it is then you have to scratch your head and wonder why ! Riding on the back of some superb releases many years ago the more modern whiskies are definitely…
Speyside No4, 24 Year Old – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Well what do we have here.. Tis another secret distillery from Speyside, the 4th in-fact.. What are those guys over at Boutiquey doing to us.. Ok so lets try to take a look at the label for clues, hmmm it looks like someone ( similar to Boutiquey Dave ) is being presented a Banjo.. Well…
Macduff 11 year old – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Macduff You would be forgiven if this isn’t the first destination you think about when visiting Scotland as Macduff is not a name on the tip of your tongue, this distillery was founded quite recently in the terms of distillery history, founded in 1962 by Marty Dyke, George Crawford and Brodie Hepburn the distillery first…
An in -Depth chat with Dave Broom, Dr Nick Morgan and Sam Simmons
I recently had the great pleasure to chat with Dave Broom, Author, film star and whisky geek as well as Diageo’s head of whisky, author and passionate whisky historian Dr Nick Morgan and finally Sam Simmons of That Boutique-y Whisky company, formally the global whisky Ambassador for the Balvenie.. Part 1.. Part 2 Part 3…
Caol Ila 11 Year Old,That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Caol ila is owned by Diageo and is one of the distilleries found on Islay, we already know what to expect from this distillery and that should be a little peaty beast, but as we know the distillery has produced some non peated whisky in the past so you never know !! The Distillery was…
Bunnahabhain 10 Year Old, That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Bunnahabhain The island of Islay is iconic with whisky drinkers all over the word, mostly for the big bold peaty whisky that splits the whisky community faster than marmite ever could.. Luckily there are a couple of distilleries that produce whisky the Non peated way. Founded back in ( in theory) 1779 when William Robertson…
Irish Single Malt #2 16 Year Old, That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Irish Whiskey The simple fact is that whisky has a deep origin and chequered history within Ireland and that alone makes Irish single malt whisky / Irish pot still whisky a very underrated product, or should I be saying whiskey ? well whichever spelling we go with it still boils down to the fact Ireland…
Blended Malt #1 18 Year Old, That Boutique-y Whisky Company
To teaspoon or not to teaspoon, thats the question.. Teaspooning is the method of ensuring other bottlers can not name your distillery and call the release a single malt.. Why do this ? well it is a way of protecting your name and also ensuring the liquid is not sold in a way that could…
Reservoir Distillery 2 Year Old, That Boutique-y Bourbon Company
Whisky/whiskey or Bourbon always has that power to make dreams happen. It is something born from an instant, a moment when ideas can become reality and todays review is about a Bourbon that was born from a moment.. Let me set the scene.. A College football game but not as most of us know it,…
Speyside #3 6 Year Old – Batch 2, That Boutique-y Whisky Company
You wait for a bus, none arrive and then 2 turn up at once.. What am I talking about ? Well sometimes when independent bottlers get their hands on some certain distilleries they just cant name them for legal reasons and although this is only a handful of distilleries it is still pretty rare but…
Langatun 5 Year Old – Batch 3, That Boutique-y Whisky Company
The story of Langatun is rather interesting and can be traced back to 1857 when Jakob Baumberger returned home from studying in Munich, when he founded a distillery in the grounds of his fathers farm.. later in 1860 he took control of a small brewery which had first been mentioned in 861 as “Langatun”. Developing both…
Macduff 10 year old – Batch 10 – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Founded by the Macduff Distillers Company in 1960 the distillery has the capacity to produce 3.4million litres of alcohol per year which like so many of the other brands it will go into blends like William Lawson which sold a staggering 37 million bottles in 2017 and was established in 1889, way before Macduff was…
Speyside #2 25 Year Old – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Advent Calendar 2020 2020 has certainly been a year we all want to forget in a hurry, the worry of losing loved ones, the endless isolation that so many have found difficult to cope with, the lack of contact with our families or even just a quick hello to strangers is now taking it’s toll…
21 Year Old Blend No3 – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
The world can be a very dark and lonely place at times, more hardships than it seems worth dealing with and hardships that drain every ounce of energy from our bodies but then a glimpse of hope arrives and suddenly the whole reason we are here becomes a lot clearer.. Each sunrise brings hope and…
Millstone 4 year old – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Zuidam Distillers Founded in 1975 the by Fred van Zuidam, the distillery is one of the last remaining independent distilleries in the Netherlands that still makes Liqueurs, Gins and of course Whisky.. The whisky is released under the Millstone label and within the core range comes a variance of ages and cask maturations ranging from…
Copperworks 3 Year Old – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Copperworks Whisky and America is not always the perfect pairing, as we are all aware America is all about Bourbon, or so we thought.. Whiskey is widespread and a dominant spirit made all over the world and no matter if you call it whisky or whiskey, all that ever matters is the end result.. But,…
