News: TBWC introduces age statements

In an era when many distilleries are moving towards no-age-statement ( NAS ) bottlings, That Boutique-y Whisky Company (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.

At first their reasoning was that they wanted to let people appreciate the intrinsic quality of the whisky, regardless of the age. They are still doing that, but disclosing the age (and possibly more when EU / UK regulations would allow it) doesn’t interfere in any...