Behold, Our First Japanese and Swedish Whiskies!

Love whiskies from far-off lands? You're in luck, as we've got our very first Japanese and Swedish whiskies ready for you!

We've got a pair of very exciting, hotly-anticipated whiskies to share with you lovely folks today - both of which come from far-off lands! If you consider yourself a bit of a whisky globe-trotter, these will be right up your alley...

First up is our Japanese Blended Whisky #1 - a 21 year old expression boasting plenty of sweet caramel and runny honey notes, with intriguing red chilli notes cutting through deftly. Japanese whisky has garnered quite the reputation in recent years, and our first ever bottling of Japanese whisky is an excellent example as to why. There's 940 of these available, and we reckon they'll be gone quick as a flash!

Secondly, we've got our first bottling of Swedish single malt from the Mackmyra distillery! Even at just three years of age, this is a complex dram with loads and loads of delicious fresh fruit notes. Only 220 bottles of this Swedish single malt was produced. Now, what's the Elvish word for friend, again?

These are available from fine retailers at the following recommended retail prices:

• Japanese Blended Whisky #1 21 Year Old - £167.95
• Mackmyra 3 Year Old - £127.95

Off-trade/on-trade enquiries should be directed to our UK distributor, Maverick Drinks.

Shower me with Sugar Lumps, Part 2

Our Lovely Horse is back! Our inaugural release received much acclaim and was awarded Gold medals from The Irish Whiskey Masters 2017, and The International Spirits Challenge 2017 earlier this year. so we thought we'd best get onto a new batch as soon as possible.

This latest release of Irish Single Malt Whiskey #1 is a 13 Year Old and we’ve squeezed a whopping 2,200 bottles at 48.4% abv for our second batch.

With notes of banana custard, jasmine, and a subtle hint of saxophone solo on the label, Irish eyes will be smiling once more. So here's to me, and here's to you, and here's to love and laughter. Sláinte mhaith!

This Irish Single Malt Whiskey #1 is available from fine retailers now with the recommended retail price of £59.95

Off-trade/on-trade enquiries should be directed to our UK distributor, Maverick Drinks.

We're 5 Today!

Five years ago today, we announced our first four bottlings. Today we have 100 labels and have released over 230 batches, and are as passionate as ever about bringing great whisky to you.

Our first four batches hailed from two open distilleries, Ardbeg, and Macallan, and two long closed: Caperdonich and Port Ellen. Earlier this year we released our sixth batch of Port Ellen, and our next batch of Macallan will be number 10.

Did you know that there are 95 long-established single malt distilleries in Scotland? There’s a further 18 that have started making single malt since 2000, too. We’ve now bottled 59 of those established distilleries – there’s still a few to we’d like to get our hands on, and we're already working on that so watch this space!

Over the last five years we’ve managed to get our hands on some fabulous casks from long closed distilleries, and have released single malts from Brora, Littlemill, Port Ellen, Caperdonich and Ayrshire. It’s not all been Scotch whisky though. We’ve bottled whisky from around the world too, with single malts from Australia, England, Germany, India, Ireland, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, plus bourbon and rye whiskey from the United States.

And let’s not forget the wonderful single grain whiskies. Six of the seven Scottish single grain distilleries have found their way into our bottles (Cameronbridge, Girvan, North British, Strathclyde, Invergordon and Loch Lomond). We’ve also released whisky from five of the seven recently closed distilleries too; Cambus, Caledonian, Carsebridge, Garnheath, and Port Dundas.

We’ve also tried our hand at blending with and have released three blended Scotch whiskies,, simply Blend #1, #2 and #3, and a handful of Blended Malts; from our ‘tea-spooned’ Blended Malts #1 and #3 to our true Blended Malt #2 and Islay Blended Malts #1 and #2

Accolades have been plentiful, and this year has been our most successful to date, We’ve picked up numerous awards at major competitions with a Gold Medal at this year’s San Francisco Spirits Competition for our Blended Whisky #1, Batch 5.

At The International Spirits Challenge ceremony the Trophy for the best Grain Whisky was awarded to our 43 Year Old Invergordon, Batch 11. Golds were awarded to our Irish Single Malt Batch 1, Blended Whisky #1 Batch 3, Blended Whisky #1, Batch 5, Blended Whisky #2 Batch 2, and Invergordon Batch 11.  We picked up six silver medals too – quite the catch!

The International Wine & Spirits Competition saw our latest batch of Port Ellen awarded Gold Outstanding, while our Blended Whisky #3. Batch 1, and Glenturret Batch 2 also picked up Golds. Three Silver-Outstanding, three Silver, and one Bronze completed the haul.

And The Spirits Masters competitions yielded 3 Masters, one each for our Invergordon Batch 3, Blended Whisky #1 Batch 5, and Blended Malt #1 Batch 3, along with nine Golds and two silvers.

This year we’ve also released a number of batches for the US market, spreading the Boutique-y Whisky love around the world. 

That’s not all: we’ve got plenty of new releases in the warehouse that we’ll be announcing throughout the rest of 2017, including some new batches and some exciting new labels. Even better, why not ring in the festive season with our Boutique-y Whisky Advent Calendar? Sample a Boutique-y Whisky every day during Advent, with a different 30ml dram behind every window.  Order yours now from our fine retailers!