Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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Single malt scotch whisky. Glenfiddich s famous special reserve pure malt was the whisky that introduced and popularised the bottling of single malts to the world. Single malt scotch whisky is one of the most revered spirits in the world. Technically single malt whiskey is a blend of malt whiskeys produced at one distillery. Single malt scotch is single malt whisky made in scotland.

Single malt scotch whisky. To legally be called a single malt scotch the whisky must be distilled at a single distillery in scotland in a copper pot still from nothing other than malted barley yeast and water. A quick primer on single malt scotch. Malt whisky is made only from malted barley in two occasionally three copper pot stills by a batch process.

To qualify for this category a whisky must have been distilled at a single distillery using a pot still distillation process and made from a mash of malted barley. Single malt scotch whisky blended scotch whisky blended malt scotch whisky grain scotch whisky american whiskey canadian whisky irish whiskey japanese whisky world whisky. Malt whisky is the original whisky of scotland. That doesn t mean that it s the same as a blended whiskey whether it be scotch or any other style.

So glenfiddich 12 for example. Single malt means that the whisky comes from one distillery and is made from 100 percent malted barley. 90 of the single malt scotch produced continues to be used to make blended whisky and the proportion was once much higher than that. Single malt scotch whisky is defined by law as whisky distilled from only malted barley aged for a minimum of three years and produced by a single distillery.