Win a Bottle of Macallan 29 Year Old!

Fancy winning yourself a bottle of our Macallan 29 Year Old? Enter our competition by picking up a bottle of our Majestic Wines exclusive That Boutique-y Whisky Company Blended Whisky #2 Batch 1 and uncovering the clues on the label!

Are you a code-cracker with a fondness for fantastic whisky? We’re running a competition with the fine folks from Majestic Wines, purveyors of many fine wines, spirits and beers, and you could win yourself one of the three bottles of our Macallan 29 Year Old that are up for grabs!

If you’ve been to a Majestic Wines shop recently and taken a stroll by the whisky section, you may have seen our marvellous Majestic Wines exclusive bottling of Blended Whisky #2 18 Year Old Batch 1. A tasty expression (if we do say so ourselves), filled with lemon drizzle cake, chewy toffee and oatcake notes. However, there’s more to the charming graphic-novel-style label than meets the eye with this one…

The label features seven cryptic clues which, when deciphered, will reveal the identity of the distilleries that produced the whiskies in the bottle. To enter the competition, buy a bottle of Blended Whisky #2 18 Year Old Batch 1 from Majestic Wines and send a tweet with the names of the seven distilleries, the unique number of your bottle of Blended Whisky #2 18 Year Old Batch 1 and a picture of you holding your open bottle to @MajesticWine and @BoutiqueyWhisky. The face you make in the photo is up to you. Smile, raise one eyebrow like a famous wrestler, have a biscuit in your mouth, whatever. You can find the Terms & Conditions here.

The first three correct entries will win one of the bottles of 29 Year Old Macallan, worth over £500! Go on, put your Sherlock Holmes deerstalker and Poirot moustache on and figure out this conundrum!

Our Range Gains Two More Grains

Have a gander at a dynamic duo of new grain whiskies which we’ve just bottled!

Look, we’ve bottled a pair of new grain whiskies! What a perfect situation for those among us that love delicious grain whiskies as well as for those among us that are writing a blog post about these two whiskies and looking for a theme to run through it. 

Here’s our very first batch of Port Dundas - a 25 year old single grain from a distillery that is sadly no more. However, that’s not going to stop us bottling their whisky, no siree! The label shows a variety of grains which have been used in the production of single grain, including a couple of our favourites like Blue Corn (makes a great tortilla chip when it’s not being used in whisky) and Triticale (a close relative to Quadrotriticale - a top treat for tribbles).

We’ve also got our second batch of Girvan single grain Scotch whisky, aged for 52 years. Friar John looks somewhat wary of the rotovap being installed, but then again, he’s never seen one of them before and just had it plonked down in front of him by a time-traveller! It’s understandable to be a touch confused about the entire situation. Nevertheless, we’re sure he’s excited at the prospect of continuing to produce spirit from 1495 to 2016 to produce just as much spirit as the Girvan distillery does on any day of the week.

These two treats are available from fine retailers now. Off-trade/on-trade enquiries should be directed to our UK distributor, Maverick Drinks.

Liquid Gold Awards from the Whisky Bible

As well as a huge win for our Macallan, 7 (seven!) more Boutique-y whiskies have received Liquid Gold Awards for scores of 94 Points or higher in Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2017!

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Following on from yesterday's announcement that our Macallan 25 Year Old was named Scotch Single Malt of the Year (Single Cask), we once again find ourselves bursting with pride as Jim Murray has considered another seven of our whiskies to be "Liquid Gold".

Macallan 25 Year Old - 97 Points Scotch Single Malt of the Year (Single Cask)

"Am I nosing the first Macallan 25 I tasted over 30 years ago...? ...So good I could weep."

Lagavulin 10 Year Old - 96.5 Points

"a near perfect Islay nose... gorgeous weight... a great whisky from a great distillery plucked at just the right age (indeed, being surprisingly youthful) and in all its naked beauty. Sublime."

Paul John Batch 1 - 95 Points

"the smoke, through serious maturation, has now moved into a stunning structured herbal nature with lavender and mint... such a brilliant mouth feel... a sublime peated malt from India."

Glenburgie Batch 2 - 94.5 Points

"marries a winning freshness with deeper, oak-stoked anchor. Salty, malty and teasing... sublime delivery... pretty much faultless, top grade blending malt: quite irresistible!"

Lagavulin Batch 1 - 94.5 Points

"oh, what a sensational delivery: the texture is silk with some spicy pins sticking out of it... a very rare chance to grab a Lagavulin with kindergarten characteristics... Beautifully made and a genuine treat of a dram."

Heaven Hill Batch 1 - 94 Points

"now that's what I call bourbon! Travel back 30 years and taste some Heaven Hill, and - though a different distillery - you wouldn't be too far off! This bottling does the HH name proud!"

Highland Park Batch 3 - 94 Points

"what do you know? ...Deft peat, heather-honey... and spice. It has to be..."

Cambus Batch 1 - 94 Points

"sharp and robust, we are heading into Canadian territory here... superb oils... oh, those darling spices... a brilliant bottling"

Our whiskies are available from a bunch of fine retailers. Off-trade/on-trade enquiries should be directed to our UK distributor, Maverick Drinks.