For the most part, resellers selling MGP whiskey aren&#x27;t blending. MGP has a whole menu of different whiskey recipes. Moreover, the people best known for manipulating MGP products are a worst-case: Templeton, for instance, &quot;adds value&quot; by adding flavorants to their MGP juice.<p>Aging makes a much bigger different in Scotch than it does in Bourbon and Rye, neither of which are usually aged that long.<p>Also: the reason most artisanal vendors use MGP in the first place is that they <i>can&#x27;t</i> wait 5-10 years to start selling product. Distillation isn&#x27;t the hard part of selling whiskey; waiting for maturation is.<p>There&#x27;s also the small-barrel effect that the &quot;artisanal&quot; supplies run into: you have business incentives to use small barrels to be more nimble in the market, but it turns out that small barrels also harm the maturation of the whiskey.