Blended

I used to be a Single Malt Snob. This Affordable Blended Scotch is My New Whiskey

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I poured countless glasses of whiskey during my 12 years as a bartender at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. But I didn't start to understand Scotch until I started writing about it. In my early years as a spirits writer, I went straight to Scotland's leading whiskey expert, Charles Maclean, who wrote more than … Read more

These Two New Blended Scotch Whiskies Aim to Silence Single Malt Snobs

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Blended Scotch doesn’t need a sales pitch. The hugely popular style, which combines malt and grain whisky ingredients into an approachable whole, accounts for more than 90 percent of all Scotch whisky sales worldwide. In fact, it’s the most widely consumed category of whisky on the planet. Yet among a certain subset of connoisseurs (i.e. … Read more