A particularly groovy Deanston single malt, aged for 18 years before That Boutique-y Whisky Company came along and bottled it up! On the label you can see the stills being delivered to the cotton mill where Deanston made its home back in the '60s. Hence the hippies.
Batch 3 is a release of 96 bottles.
‘That Boutique-y Whisky Company’ bottles single malts, single grains, blended malts, blends and bourbons from a variety of renowned distilleries. These whiskies are adorned with cultish graphic-novel-style labels.
Oily barley, vanilla, Golden Nuggets and toffee pennies form a core through which fresh citrus and oak spice emerge.
Acacia honey and tropical fruit are followed by rich cinnamon. Vanilla essence, soda bread and freshly cut grass notes develop.
Cedar and white oak remain.
A soft and supple tipple that develops beautifully with time.
Got this with a few samples I ordered for our new after-work tasting club. I was excited for this one as it had been named overall whisky of the year, and with this being an independent bottling I imagined it would be the best expression of that whisky. Nope. On the nose all I had was cheap Wray & Nephew white rum, not sure where that came from. On the palate it was still very overproof rum flavoured, had to check the tasting notes online to see if this was rum cask matured but apparently not. Didn’t get any sense I was drinking scotch until the finish and it took it’s sweet time getting there. Giving it 1.5 stars because I actually quite like Wray &Nephew, but I expected a quality scotch and unfortunately this just didn’t deliver for me.
