This is a review of the rather lovely That Boutique-y Whisky Company's Caol Ila Batch 1 bottling. It is a no age statement bottling following the company's project of finding "minuscule parcels of forgotten stock/lost casks" of whisky that we get to enjoy. Which, noble effort aside, brings me to my complaint. I have been pretty positive in the things I've talked about on this site and, frankly, I'm going to be pretty positive about this wee dram, but its the histrionics about the tasting bits that I'm going to go on a bit for.
Read MoreThe occasion was to showcase Singleton of Dufftown's two new whiskies, Sunray and Tailfire. Now, it is a known fact that it is just plain wrong to experience new whisky alone. So I grabbed a willing volunteer who was promptly joined by his wife, three's a party you know.
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