The UK’s seven-time Tiddlywinks World Singles Champion Dr. Patrick Barrie

Multi-award-winning independent bottler That Boutique-y Whisky Company (TBWC) proudly announces their sponsorship of the UK’s seven-time Tiddlywinks World Singles Champion Dr. Patrick Barrie with the release of a 24 year old Single Grain Scotch Whisky.

TBWC’s Cameronbridge 24 Year Old is a limited release of just 211 bottles!

That Boutique-y Whisky Company have released their first batch from the internationally renowned Cameronbridge Grain Distillery, a ‘squopping’ 24 Year Old Single Grain Scotch Whisky (RRP £64.95). TBWC is also proud to announce the exciting sponsorship of seven-time Tiddlywinks World Singles Champion, Dr. Patrick Barrie, who will be competing at the National Singles Competition at Downing College Cambridge this month in his bid to represent the United Kingdom in the next World Championship.

The World Singles is the game’s highest accolade”, he explains, “it’s played on a challenge basis where a player must become the National Singles champion in order to challenge the current World Singles champion to an official match.

While the exact origins of tiddlywinks are vague, the modern competitive version started in 1955. It may not be the most fashionable of sports, but it’s got a great mix of manual dexterity, strategy and tactics. I think that the image of tiddlywinks is set to change thanks to That Boutique-y Whisky Company’s sponsorship with their release from the Cameronbridge Grain Distillery, a distillery with nearly 200 years of history behind it.
– Dr. Barrie: Lecturer in Chemical Engineering – Cambridge University & playing tiddlywinks competitively since 1984!

Known for their fun graphic-novel style labels, as well as their award-winning whiskies, TBWC’s latest release features the seven-time champion in action at the World Tiddlywinks Final. There’s a respectful hush from the spectators as Patrick, squidger in hand, and carefully concentrating, lines up his second shot following the successful potting of his last wink.

TBWC’s Cameronbridge 24 Year Old is a limited release of just 211 bottles. A soft and gentle single grain, with notes of icing sugar, runny honey and rich golden syrup on the nose, while waves of vanilla, fresh pencil shavings and a gentle peppery spiciness come across on the palate.

That Boutique-y Whisky Company’s range of whiskies is available from fine retailers including Master of Malt, Amazon, Majestic Wine, Hedonism Wines, Selfridges and Harvey Nichols.

TBWC is the creator of the award-winning Blended Whisky #1, which was named World’s Best Blended Whisky at the World Whiskies Awards 2015

Multi-award-winning independent bottler That Boutique-y Whisky Company (TBWC) is adding age-statements to its future releases. Amongst the first releases to be announced are Girvan 52yo, Macallan 25yo, Ardbeg 12yo, Blended Whisky #1 35yo and Invergordon 43yo.

When many distilleries are moving towards no-age-statement (NAS) bottlings, TBWC (which has, to date, offered only a NAS range of bottlings) is taking the unprecedented step of going ‘the other way’ – adding age statements – in order to give consumers more information about its whiskies.

This categorically doesn’t mean that we now believe that age is the most important thing about our whiskies. The most important thing is, and always has been, flavour – and we continue to make cask and parcel selections on that basis alone. When we launched TBWC, we wanted the liquid to be judged on its absolute quality – not its age.

We’re 3½ years on now, and feel that we’ve established a reputation for exceptional liquid, and the feedback we’re consistently getting from our customers is that they’re really interested in how old the whiskies inside are. This and the recent launch of the campaign for transparency by John Glaser of Compass Box – which we wholeheartedly support – combined to make adding age statements to our bottlings somewhat of a no-brainer.

It’s not just super-punchy age statements we’ll be listing either. We’ve got some extraordinary whiskies in the pipeline with tiny age statements; a 3yo from Slyrs in Germany, a 6yo from a famous Islay distillery which has been matured in fresh Bourbon casks, and a heavily-peated 4yo Blended Malt that’s been matured in ultra-active Madeira casks to name but a few – these are all *awesomely* good whiskies, and are certainly fully mature despite the low age statements.

We are also committed to revealing all the information we have on the breakdown of the ages of the various whiskies that make up each bottling as soon as the campaign for transparency is successful, and the EU legislation – which is at best a blunt instrument – is modified to allow us the freedom to do so.

– Ben Ellefsen: TBWC

The list of whiskies available on launch and for preorder is as follows (listed with their RRPs):-
Girvan 52 Year Old (Batch 1) £247.95
Macallan 25 Year Old (Batch 5) £497.95
Ardbeg 12 Year Old (Batch 7) £99.95
Blended Whisky #1 35 Year Old (Batch 3) £119.95
Invergordon 43 Year Old (Batch 5) £99.95
Islay Blended Malt #2 27 Year Old (Batch 1) £127.95
Port Charlotte 13 Year Old (Batch 2) £79.95
Ben Nevis 19 Year Old (Batch 4) £66.95
Aberlour 23 Year Old (Batch 4) £94.95
Paul John 6 Year Old (Batch 2) £99.95
The English Whisky Company 5 Year Old (Batch 1) £57.95
Glentauchers 17 Year Old (Batch 2) £79.95
Mortlach 27 Year Old (Batch 2) £273.95
Lagavulin 10 Year Old (Batch 2) £99.95
Glenrothes 10 Year Old (Batch 2) £54.95

They can be obtainded from Master Of Malt