Scotch is some of my favorite alcohol to drink. What about you?
Scotch is great, they really know how to make whisky
Yeah it's so great! How long has it been around?
scotch whisky has been around for a few centuires and has to be at least 3 years old to be considered
3 years of aging? That's quite a long time!
old.
The first written mention of Scotch whisky is in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, 1495. A friar named John Cor was the distiller at Lindores Abbey in Newburgh, Fife, where, in October 2017, malt whisky production restarted for the first time in 522 years.
Many Scotch whisky drinkers refer to a unit for drinking as a dram.
Regulations and labelling.
Regulations and labelling Legal definition.
As of 23 November 2009, the Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009 (SWR) define and regulate the production
old whisky that uses a vatting process similar to the solera. The whisky is labelled as their "15 year old single malt Scotch Whisky". For Scotch whisky, the stated age must refer to the youngest of whisky's components. Barrels are emptied into the solera vat and mixed. Then whisky is drawn from the vat to be bottled, with the vat never being more than half emptied. Since the process began in 1998, the vat has never been emptied.
In France some producers use the "perpétuelle"