A blended whiskey (or blended whisky) is the product of blending different types of whiskeys and sometimes also neutral grain spirits, colorings, and flavorings. It is generally the product of mixing one or more higher-quality straight or single malt whiskey with less expensive spirits and other ingredients. This typically allows for a lower priced finished product, although expensive “premium” varieties also exist.
Some examples of blended whiskey include Canadian Mist, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Seagram’s Seven, Kessler Whiskey, the premium Japanese brand Hibiki, and the various Scotch whisky blends sold under the Johnnie Walker brand.
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Tasting Notes
Colour: Bright gold. This is an inference based on product imagery and style rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Ripe juicy pear, peat smoke, oak, honey, vanilla, and apples. This combines the official Black Bottle profile with retailer tasting notes.
Palate: Green apple, biscuity caramel, fruity peat, gentle spice, and rich oaky notes, with a balance between smoke and orchard-fruit sweetness. The balance wording is an inference based on the official and retailer tasting notes.
Finish: Charred embers, deep dark smoke, sprays of sea-salt, and lingering warmth.
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Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep gold. This is an inference based on product imagery and style rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Fresh florals, oak, spice, and smoke, with hints of sea salt, honey, and a lightly savoury bacon-like edge. This combines the official Black Bottle notes with retailer tasting descriptors.
Palate: Silky and mellow, with dry wood smoke, balanced peat, sweet oak, heather honey, and charred toffee.
Finish: Soft and elegantly spicy, with blackened bonfire notes, pepper, nutmeg, and a gentle lingering smokiness.
Colour: Warm amber. This is an inference based on retailer imagery and one retailer’s visual description rather than a formally published official colour note.
Nose: Dried nuts, rich fruit, maple syrup, and oak, with vanilla, figs, fudge, carrot cake, and a wisp of smoke. This note combines the official Black Bottle flavour description with retailer tasting notes.
Palate: Layers of vanilla, toasted coconut, caramel-coated nuts, raisins, cherries, nutmeg, cinnamon, honey, and smoked toffee.
Finish: Sweet and softly smoky, with delicate smoke drifting through nutty chocolate and lingering spice.
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Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep amber with ruby-gold hints. This is an inference based on the sherry-and-wine-cask style and product imagery rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Dried fruit, walnuts, raisins, wood, and orange, with extra touches of blackcurrant, damson, and coffee cake from retailer tasting notes.
Palate: Sweet Spanish sherry cask flavours lead into berries, cherry, raspberry, vanilla cream, and soft warming spice.
Finish: Long and dry, with grapes, overflowing red wine, flamed toffee, toasted brown sugar, and a light smoky tail.
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Tasting Notes
Colour: Golden vanilla. This wording follows retailer presentation rather than an official current producer colour note.
Nose: Surging spices, island peat, maritime medicinal notes, toasted cedar, earthy smoke, sweet toffee, and a touch of cinnamon.
Palate: A union of earth and ocean, with black pepper and sea salt colliding with sweet cereal, vanilla, cardamom, oatcakes, seaweed, and salted caramel.
Finish: Long and warming, with waves of oak spice, smoke, and lingering dry sea salt.
Colour: Deep gold to amber. This is an inference based on product imagery and the charred-oak style rather than a formally published colour note.
Nose: Initial notes of salt and seaweed reminiscent of sea air, with dark smoke, crisp spice, coastal peat, smoked herbs, and touches of toasted barley and salted caramel.
Palate: Intense toasted spices, powerful peat, charred oak, golden barley, hints of vanilla cream, honeyed barley, toffee, and a lingering coastal sea-spray note.
Finish: Long and smoky, with salted caramel, deep smoke, and a persistent peaty warmth.
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Tasting Notes
Colour: Full amber.
Nose: Robust aromas of chocolate, toffee, sherry, vanilla, and lemon sherbet.
Palate: Smooth, mellow, and rounded, with milk chocolate, treacle toffee, pears, green apples, and lots of sweet vanilla.
Finish: Fruity and creamy, with lingering weight and soft toffee notes. The toffee wording is supported by retailer notes and is a light expansion of the published finish descriptions.
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Tasting Notes
Colour: Bright gold. This is an inference based on the style and age statement of Buchanan’s 12 Year Old De Luxe 1L, 40%; no official standalone colour note was found in the sources reviewed.
Nose: Soft and fruity, with orange-led citrus and a gentle honeyed sweetness. This is based on the official published tasting notes for Buchanan’s 12 Year Old De Luxe 1L, 40%.
Palate: Smooth and mellow, with orange, mandarin, chocolate and honey sweetness. This is based on the official published tasting notes for Buchanan’s 12 Year Old De Luxe 1L, 40%.
Finish: Light, refined and gently sweet, with lingering citrus and soft chocolate character. This is based on the official published tasting notes for Buchanan’s 12 Year Old De Luxe 1L, 40% and the producer’s published style description.
Colour: Deep gold to amber. This is an inference based on the sherry influence, rye component and the published bottle presentation reviewed.
Nose: Rich and spicy, with prominent rye notes, a strong wave of peat smoke and a touch of apple sweetness in the background. This is based on the published tasting notes reviewed.
Palate: Barbecue sauce, smoky sausage, rye spice and peat, with the smoky and savoury profile holding together in a bold, highly unusual way. This is based on the published tasting notes reviewed.
Finish: Long, smoky and lingering. This is based on the published tasting notes reviewed.
Colour: Deep gold to amber. This is an inference based on the official cask style and sherry influence.
Nose: Rich and inviting, with mellow peat smoke, dried fruits and a hint of maritime brine, with spiced oak, raisins and subtle sweetness. This is based on the official published tasting notes.
Palate: A harmonious blend of smoky phenolic flavours and rich sherry sweetness, with softened peat, oak spice, dried fruits, dark chocolate and a touch of cinnamon. This is based on the official published tasting notes.
Finish: Long and warming, with smoke fading into oak spice, sweet sherry and a touch of sea salt. This is based on the official published tasting notes.
Colour: Pale gold to light amber. This is an inference based on the published cask style and bottle presentation.
Nose: Bold peat smoke, subtle medicinal notes, a hint of brine, vanilla and mellow oak spice. This is based on the official published tasting notes.
Palate: Full-bodied and smoky, with vanilla, caramel, creamy texture, fresh oak and a touch of spice. This is based on the official published tasting notes.
Finish: Long and warming, with lingering smoke, oak spice and balanced sweetness. This is based on the official published tasting notes.
Colour: Deep amber gold. This is an inference based on official product imagery for the Christian Lacroix edition and the standard visual presentation of Chivas Regal 18.
Nose: Rich, indulgent and multi-layered, with dried fruits, buttery toffee and dark chocolate. This is based on the official published tasting notes for Chivas Regal 18, the 18-year-old blend presented in this Christian Lacroix edition.
Palate: Velvety dark chocolate, floral notes and sweet, mellow smokiness. This is based on the official published tasting notes for Chivas Regal 18, the 18-year-old blend presented in this Christian Lacroix edition.
Finish: Extremely warm and long. This is based on the official published tasting notes for Chivas Regal 18, the 18-year-old blend presented in this Christian Lacroix edition.
Colour: Deep amber gold. This is an inference based on the standard appearance of Chivas Regal 18 and product imagery for the Christian Lacroix edition.
Nose: Rich, indulgent and multi-layered, with dried fruits, buttery toffee and dark chocolate. This is based on the official published tasting notes for Chivas Regal 18, the whisky used in this Christian Lacroix edition.
Palate: Velvety dark chocolate, floral notes and sweet, mellow smokiness. This is based on the official published tasting notes for Chivas Regal 18, the whisky used in this Christian Lacroix edition.
Finish: Extremely warm and long. This is based on the official published tasting notes for Chivas Regal 18, the whisky used in this Christian Lacroix edition.
Nose: Ripe plums, caramel, toffee and creamy vanilla.
Palate: Rich and fruity with orange marmalade, milk chocolate, raisins and delicate smoke, with butterscotch, orchard fruit, honeysuckle and white pepper layered through.
Finish: Long, sweet and unbelievably smooth, with lingering spice and chocolate richness.
Nose: Orange peel, toffee, fine-roasted spices, vanilla extract, with hints of cocoa and malt.
Palate: Creamy and rounded with malted sweetness, candied orange peel, orange sherbet crystals and mild spice, moving into baked orange and butterscotch.
Finish: Creamy, soothing and lingering, with soft orange sweetness, gentle spice and toffee.
A 12 year old expression of Old Parr blended Scotch whisky. The brand was named for Old Tom Parr, who was said to have been the oldest man in Britain, living until he was 152 years old! This is a 1 litre bottling.
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A 12 year old expression of Old Parr blended Scotch whisky. The brand was named for Old Tom Parr, who was said to have been the oldest man in Britain, living until he was 152 years old! This is a 1 litre bottling.
A 12 year old expression of Old Parr blended Scotch whisky. The brand was named for Old Tom Parr, who was said to have been the oldest man in Britain, living until he was 152 years old! This is a 1 litre bottling.
The pictures are from the actual bottle, if you’d like more detailed photos just get in touch!
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Haig Club is a new Single Grain Scotch Whisky with a character and style that sets it apart. Â Haig Club is designed to be different – from the unique way in which the liquid has been crafted to the distinctive square, blue bottle, to the partnership with global icon David Beckham and British entrepreneur Simon Fuller.
The much anticipated David Beckham endorsed single grain whisky, produced at Cameronbridge distillery. A combination of first-fill, rejuvenated and refill bourbon barrel-matured whiskies are used and Beckham, along with Simon Fuller, is very much involved in the development of the Haig Club brand.
The Haig dynasty meanwhile is the stuff of legend, with Robert Haig getting himself into trouble for distilling on the sabbath back in 1655! Cameronbridge was founded by John Haig in 1824, and a continuous still designed by Robert Stein (who was John’s uncle) was soon installed at the site for the production of grain whisky, predating Aeneas Coffey’s famous patent for his own version of the continuous still by a handful of years.
The grain whisky produced at Cameronbridge would naturally become integral to the well-loved Haig blended whiskies and now the Haig brand has been reinvented for a new generation and new markets. It may seem like a scary new world to some, but grain whisky is on the march, and Haig Club is at the very forefront.
Made by John Haig and Company, the oldest Scotch whisky distillers in the world (well, in Scotland, and by proxy the world). Haig Gold Label is made with 40% malt whisky, including Glenkinchie and Linkwood.