Boutique-y Oxford Artisan 3-Year-Old Single Grain English Whisky Batch 1

The first batch from the Oxford Artisan distillery is a 3 Year Old Single Grain, a release of just 172 bottles at 50% abv. With a mash bill of Ancient Heritage Grains: 51% corn, 35% rye, 10% wheat and 5% malted barley.

This release comes from an incredibly exciting, new distillery based in Oxford. All grains used are cultivated, distilled and matured within 50 miles of their Oxford distillery. It’s the first certified organic grain-to-glass distillery in the UK.

They also designed and built their own unique stills! This is from Cask No.1 – The very first cask filled at the distillery! Starting life in a new charred 225L virgin American Oak Cask for 19 months before transferring to a French Oak 100 Litre Sauternes cask for the remainder of it’s maturation – 21 months.

Offical Notes:

Nose: Fruity with notes of apples, pears, green banana and some linseed oil

Palate: Sweet orchard fruits, toasted rye bread, linseed oil and herbal thyme

That Boutique-y Whisky Company have bottled most distilleries in Scotland and are increasingly expanding to include whiskies from around the world. Their limited edition labels are designed by Emily Chappell and reference interesting elements (or in-jokes) about the distillery. 

Boutique-y bottle their batches, which can be single cask or a number of casks, at the strength they deem the whisky is most enjoyable at.