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23 Nov 09
New Scotch Whisky Categories.
By Ian
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New Scotch Whisky Categories.
As of today 23rd November 2009, there are five new whisky categories covering the whole of the Scotch Whisky Industry. (They will replace all of the current categories.)
They are Single Grain, Blended Grain, Single Malt, Blended Malt and Blended Scotch Whisky, ( a mixture of both malt and grain whiskies).
Within blended we used to have Deluxe Blend, a description given to blends 12 years old and over, this dissappears altogether but an age statement will probably remain on most of the older blends.
One other change to Scotch Whisky law is that all Malt Whisky must now be bottled in Scotland, this isn`t really a departure from what we had but the SWA felt it was an opportunity to ensure that from now on Malt could only be bottled in Scotland, an important change really considering the likely growth in this sector.
85% of Scotch Blended is bottled in Scotland and this is unlikely to change due to the impact it could have on jobs outside of Scotland.
Ian Millar
23/11/09
Awesome, I didn’t heard about this topic until now. Cheers!