🔺The world's most expensive bottle of Scotch whisky is Isabella’s Islay ($6.2 million).
🔺The oldest Scotch whisky on the market is the Aisla T’Orten 107 years old, distilled in 1906. It costs $ 1.43 million
🔺Glenfiddich is the world's best-selling single malt
🔺Johnnie Walker Red Label is the world's best-selling Scotch
🔺The Famous Grouse is the best-selling whisky in Scotland
🔺Glenmorangie is the best-selling single malt in Scotland.
🔺The world's fastest growing Scotch today is Black Dog. India is a major contributor to its sales.
🔺The five most popular single malts globally are Glenfiddich, The Glenlivet, Glenmorangie Original, Aberlour and Laphroaig
🔺Bruichladdich’s The Octomore is the most heavily peated whisky in the world (167ppm)
🔺The three oldest single malts currently sold are Glenturret, Oban and Glenlivet
🔺The oldest distillery in Scotland is Glenturret (1775), followed by Bowmore (1779)
🔺With
each bottle of Laphroaig that you buy, you are entitled to a lifetime
lease of one sq foot of the distillery’s land, along with a personalized
certificate of ownership
🔺Cadenhead’s
Whisky Shop on Canongate, has a unique selling point: customers can
have a bottle poured straight from a cask and labeled with their name.
When sealed it has a label with the ‘born on date’, as whisky stops
aging as soon as it leaves the wooden barrel, so each bottle is a unique
blend.
🔺The
highest price paid at an auction for a bottle of Scotch was $631,850
for a 6-liter The Macallan “M” single malt, in a decanter by Lalique.
(The highest price paid at an auction for a standard sized Scotch was
$460,000 for a 64-year-old Macallan malt whisky)
🔺Edradour is the smallest distillery in Scotland. The entire operation is run by just three people.
🔺The
Glenmorangie distillery is one of the smallest in the Highlands and
employs just sixteen craftsmen, called ‘The Sixteen Men of Tain’
🔺The most expensive country in which to buy Scotch, ironically, is the UK, where it is made.
🔺In
the UK, its home country, the five most popular blended Scotch whiskies
are The Famous Grouse, William Grant’s, Bell’s, Teacher’s and J&B
Rare. Note: Johnnie Walker does not feature in the list of best-selling
blends in its home country.
🔺A
closed bottle of Scotch can be kept for 100 years and still be good to
drink. After opening, a bottle of Scotch whisky will remain good for
five years.
🔺The
Australian Wine Research Institute has introduced a measure called a
standard drink. In Australia, a standard drink contains 10 g (12.67 ml)
of alcohol, the amount that an average adult male can metabolize in one
hour.
🔺Although
their proof differs, standard drinks of beer, wine and spirits contain
the same amount of alcohol – 0.6 ounces each. They’re all the same to a
breathalyzer.
🔺18,000
litres of Scotch whisky worth over $800,000 were accidentally flushed
down the drain at Chivas Brothers’ Dumbarton bottling plant in 2013.
🔺Experts advise you to drink single malt with just a dash of water. The water supposedly ‘releases the serpent’ from the whisky.
🔺If
there is a serpent, there is also an angel. As it ages, 2-2.5 % of the
whisky maturing in a barrel is lost to evaporation every year.
Distillers refer to this as the ‘angel’s share’.
🔺There is also a devil. The whisky absorbed by the wood of barrel during maturation is known as the 'devil's cut’.
🔺Some
sources claim that the Irish whiskey distillers brought the Irish
custom of triple distillation with them to Scotland. Auchentoshan was
probably started by Irish settlers, led by the MacBeathas, starting this
custom. The source of the name Auchentoshan is Gaelic. It means 'corner
of the field'.
🔺The
United States and Ireland spell it as 'whiskey'. A simple way to
remember the spelling: if it comes from a country without an ‘e’ in its
spelling, then it is spelt 'whisky'. (e.g., Scotland, Canada, Japan,
India, etc.)
🔺Indian 'whisky' is technically flavoured rum, because it's essentially made from sugar !!!!!!!!!!
