Macallan 10yr old

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Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: Babbles
As far as I know all Johnnie Walker whiskies are blended, even their ~$250/bottle Blue label. I do think blended Scotch does get a bad rep. The problem, in my opinion, is that many cheap non-Scotch whiskey is blended so then people assume blended = crap.

Green Label is Single Malt

No, it's a vatted malt which is different. A vatted malt uses single malts from several distilleries without grain. A single malt uses several malts from the *same* distillery without grain. A single barrel malt uses 1 malt from 1 barrel from 1 distillery.

All forms add water to regulate alcohol, even the cask strength whiskys do this. There are a very few companies that produce a bottling that adds no water, and you get the whisky as it comes from the cask, but they are very uncommon.

They have stopped using the term Vatted Malt now, apparently it was too confusing.

So now the geniuses over at the Scottish Whiskey Association has decided to make everything more confusing and call a "vatted malt" a "Blended Malt Scotch Whiskey". But its exactly what you said it was, a blend of Single Malt Scotch Whiskies, which have been distilled at more than one distillery.

 

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.... okay. learn something new everyday