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WHISKY SCOTLAND

ARBIKIE HIGHLAND ESTATE SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS A family-owned working farm perched on the east coast of Angus. Arbikie, painstakingly plants, sows, tends & harvests the fields, they are craftsmen of the soil. Profoundly shaped by its environment: the red sandstone-tinted soil, the powerful sea, and the turbulent weather, Arbikie has character found nowhere else. Arbikie 1794 Highland Rye Whiskey 96PF / 750ML Arbikie Scotch Whisky is a celebration of the field to bottle approach to distilling that took place at Arbikie in 1794. For 1794, maturation is entirely in this lively new oak, creating exciting flavours and aromas to fire the imagination and senses. ISLAY MIST SCOTLAND, ISLAY Islay Mist still remains a premium blended Scotch whisky and is now exported to 32 countries worldwide. The bottle still carries the Lord of the Isles Seal which is a testament to its birth on Islay and the connection to the Lord of the Isles, Lord Margadale. Islay Mist Scotch The Original Peated Blend Whisky 80PF / 750ML The main character, our flagship expression. Staying true to the founding recipe, Islay Mist remains the original peated blend with characteristic balanced smoky tones between layers of mellow, oaky maltiness.

Blended vs Single Malt Consumers and even some bartenders have a misconception that single malt Scotch is not a blended whisky, but this is a myth. Single-malt scotch is a blend, but it’s a very specific type of blend. What Is a Blend?

Informally, a blend is a mixture—in this case, a mixture of two or more whiskies that are bottled and sold as one whisky. Formally, however, a blended whisky is a product that contains a mix of barrel-aged malt and grain whiskies. What Does Single Mean, Anyway? The confusion lies in the simple word single. A single-malt scotch whisky is nothing more or less than the product of a single distillery. Not a single batch or a single barrel, but a single distillery.

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