Blended Scotch Whisky

For most people, their first encounter with Scotch whisky involves a blend – but then about 90% of the market is made up of products which combine malt and grain spirit. Blended Scotch whisky is the combination of malt and grain whiskies, matured for at least three years in oak. That’s the easy bit. But how many single malts? How many grains? Which ones? What kind of cask have they matured in and for how long? And how will all those flavours marry together?

Making blended Scotch whisky is a fiendishly difficult skill which requires more than a nose for flavour – it takes years of experience, a detailed knowledge of distilleries (some of them now closed), their stocks and how they react to wood and to being combined with other malts and grains. It takes an alarming level of intuition and palate memory. In other words, it’s not easy.

• Chivas Regal XV
• Dimple Haig
• Dewars 12 year old
• Grants Triple Wood
• Famous Grouse
• Johnnie Walker - A Song of Fire
  

TASTING PROCESS

1. Private tasting with Charcuterie Board snacks
2. Available for groups of 4 to 8 people at a time
3. We can also cater for larger groups up to 20 people, with a tasting menu to be arranged.
4. Full pre-payment before confirmation of booking - dates and times
5. Suitable dates will be provided for the tasting, which will take 2 hours maximum.
6. All pouring per individual glass 25ml